RCRC press releases and related news clips about RCRC and our member counties. Please note that a subscription may be required to read some external publications.
California’s self-own on wind and solar – POLITICO
RCRC Senior Policy Advocate, John Kennedy, is quoted in this article highlighting the continued slow progress for energy projects through the state’s new permit streamlining program and the desire by some to keep decision-making at the local level.
California Democrat rails against redistricting maps – San Francisco Chronicle
Sonoma County Supervisor Lynda Hopkins expresses concerns over the potential for California’s newly proposed congressional maps to dilute the voice of rural California.
Central Valley subsidence damages CA Aqueduct, water delivery – Fresno Bee
Years of collapsing areas of land in the San Joaquin Valley — caused primarily by the over-pumping of groundwater for farming — has taken a toll on California’s largest water delivery system that relies on stable land to work well.
California’s last beet sugar factory is leaving the state – Los Angeles Times
The last factory in California that turns sugar beets into sugar is shutting down after 78 years, according to the company that owns the factory. The closure of the factory, located in the Imperial Valley, means the elimination of hundreds of local jobs and possibly the end of sugar beet farming in the state.