EcoNews Report #251 Pre-Election Jitters with Rep. Jared Huffman https://eelriver.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Econews-251-Huffman-Check-in-Air-Final.mp3 Congressman Huffman is back on the show. With a major election in just a few days, what is the Congressman up...
EcoNews Report #248 Sonoma Groundwater https://eelriver.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Econews-248-Sonoma-Groundwater-Air-Final.mp3 In late August, Russian Riverkeeper and the California Coastkeeper Alliance got what looks like a very significant ruling in their...
Chevron deference is no more. What’s Chevron deference you ask? Well, it was the backbone of our federal administrative state. Congress often passes laws that are vague or are capable of multiple interpretations. In Chevron, decided in 1984, the Supreme Court...
Special guest Rep. Jared Huffman is heading a task force in the Democratic caucus to address Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s policy outline for a second Trump administration. The document is pervaded by anti-science and anti-regulatory animus, with a...
PG&E announced on Friday, May 31 late last week that it will request a 7-month extension from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in decommissioning the Eel River dams. Stakeholders were expecting the utility to file its Draft Surrender Application...
In the fall of 2022 Friends of the Eel River filed suit against Humboldt County for failing to protect the public trust values of the Lower Eel River by managing groundwater use during critically dry years. The public trust doctrine is an ancient legal principle...
