4 Terratorial Hard Decisions Regulators claim raising power rates was a hard decision. But they're not the ones to feel the pain.
Scientists are alarmed.
Activists are fighting back with a Starbucks campaign, crop uprootings and burnings, and pending planting bans and liability legislation in several states. A private company is looking to flood two Delta islands to store water for sale during dry times. Critics have sued, charging that the project will damage Delta water quality and pave the way for dangerous private control of water. That's not good news for species like the rare Pacific fisher, a weasel relative that stands to lose habitat, including big trees used for shelter from predators. A Salinas River dam proposal would endanger the river's few remaining steelhead, and do little to slow the seawater intrusion that is within two miles of fouling Salinas' wells.