Eel River News
A Buyer For What? Secretary Rollins Tweets More Political Garbage About Eel River Dams
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued a message today alleging that a water district near LA is interested in purchasing the Eel River dams and the rest of the Potter Valley Project from PG&E. “Why anyone would be interested in paying money for a failed…
Support for PG&E’s 2026 Variance Request
Nearly every year for the past decade, PG&E has been unable to meet their license required and contractual flows out of the Potter Valley Project. This is due to both climate change, and the many failures of the Project which prevent the reservoir from being fully filled…
The “God Squad” Returns! — EcoNews Report #313
Trump has revived a little-utilized part of the Endangered Species Act — formally the Endangered Species Committee, but often called the “God Squad” as it can decide whether species may go extinct — in a purported effort to boost oil and gas development in the Gulf of…
Eel River Dam Removal Becomes MAGA Target
By Scott Greacen | Originally published in Issue No. 111 of The Osprey. As 2025 drew to a close, the big news on California's Eel River was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins’ unhinged and weird letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory...
Trump Spikes Climate Regulations — EcoNews Report #307
On February 12, the Trump Administration rescinded the Obama-era “endangerment finding,” a legal recognition by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that greenhouse gas emissions were harming and would further harm health and human safety. This endangerment finding…
FOER Comments on PG&E’s License Surrender Application
Across a broad range of potentially affected resources and interests, PG&E’s License Surrender Application lays out substantial evidence that removal of the Potter Valley Project dams on the upper mainstem Eel River will more than meet FERC’s “broad public interest” test for decommissioning hydroelectric facilities.
FOER Statement on Appeal of Friends of the Eel River v. Humboldt County
Friends of the Eel River (FOER) has moved to appeal the Humboldt Superior Court’s September ruling denying our claim that Humboldt County has a duty under the Public Trust doctrine to consider the impacts of groundwater pumping on salmon holding in the lower Eel...
Exploring the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument — EcoNews Report #299
This week on the Econews Report, we’re joined by Marc Hoshovsky and Bob Schneider, two of the authors of the new book Exploring the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, which will be published early next year by Backcountry Press. Never heard of the Berryessa...
3 Ways You Can Help the Eel Today
December 2nd is Giving Tuesday! Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. Every year, Friends of the Eel River joins in this movement to encourage people like you to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. Please...
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