Salinas Valley is home to some of the most polluted waterways on the Central Coast. Moss Landing Harbor is one of the state’s “toxic hot spots…
After two years of revisions, the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board will vote on a new rule for agricultural water quality Ma…
After two years of stagnation, rules on agricultural runoff for the Central Coast could finally flow Sept. 1, when the Central Coast Regional …
In a battle over regulating agricultural runoff that's been a high priority for regional environmental and agricultural groups since 2008, the…
After years of hearings and delays—due partly to the contentiousness of regulating agricultural runoff, and partly to lacking a quorum—the Cen…
Nearly a dozen groups representing farmers filed petitions Monday with the State Water Resources Control Board urging them to overturn new run…
The unanimity that appeared to end three contentious years of deliberations over agricultural runoff regulations only lasted a month.
Step too far out onto the banks of Tembladero Slough at low tide, and you’ll find yourself knee-deep in brown muck.
The legal battle over nitrate pollution in the Salinas River basin heads to Monterey County Superior Court on Sept. 14, when Judge Lydia Villa…
The flurry of appeals against the "ag waiver," a set of rules intended to improve water quality by cracking down on agricultural polluters, me…
Especially after this weekend's rain, the Salinas River is running much faster than the plodding regulatory process intended to clean up the w…
Regulators, environmental groups and growers have been hotly debating for years about the finer points of how to most effectively improve wate…
Water pollution seems to last longer than consensus on the Central Coast.
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