A court has rejected environmental groups' challenge of the Sites Reservoir project. California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state urgently needs to store more water.
California’s plan to build the state’s first new major reservoir in decades is advancing after a court rejected a challenge by environmental groups. In the ruling last week, a Yolo County Superior Court judge sided against environmental advocates who had argued Sites Reservoir would harm the Sacramento River’s ecosystem and threaten imperiled fish species. Gov. Gavin Newsom praised the decision, saying the project has cleared a major hurdle.
McAdam ruled against those claims. Newsom sought to speed the process through an infrastructure streamlining law that was adopted last year. The law, SB 149, requires courts to decide on such environmental challenges within 270 days to the extent feasible. Newsom’s office noted that last week’s decision occurred in 148 days.
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