President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to use executive action to force California to funnel more water to the southern part of the state, after a water shortage helped fuel devastating fires in Los Angeles.
The city is enduring a third day of intense and destructive wildfires fanned by high winds and worsened by the state’s fire mitigation and water distribution policies.
Mr. Trump made his pledge to take action in California as fires raged in the hills outside of Los Angeles.
Five years ago, Mr. Newsom rejected the first Trump administration’s plan that called for funneling more water from the northern part of the state to California’s farms and to communities in southern California. Mr. Newsom took the Trump administration to court over the plan due to concerns that diverting the water would wipe out the state’s dwindling Chinook salmon population and the largely extinct Delta smelt.
Half of the state’s water now runs into the Pacific for environmental reasons, including protection of the salmon and the smelt.
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The city is enduring a third day of intense and destructive wildfires fanned by high winds and worsened by the state’s fire mitigation and water distribution policies.
Mr. Trump made his pledge to take action in California as fires raged in the hills outside of Los Angeles.
Five years ago, Mr. Newsom rejected the first Trump administration’s plan that called for funneling more water from the northern part of the state to California’s farms and to communities in southern California. Mr. Newsom took the Trump administration to court over the plan due to concerns that diverting the water would wipe out the state’s dwindling Chinook salmon population and the largely extinct Delta smelt.
Half of the state’s water now runs into the Pacific for environmental reasons, including protection of the salmon and the smelt.
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Trump to challenge Gov. Newsom on California’s water policies amid uncontrolled wildfires
President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to use executive action to force California to funnel more water to the southern part of the state, after a water shortage helped fuel devastating fires in Los Angeles.
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