A slide from BDCP's August 29 public meeting. Credit: BDCP With a price tag in the tens of billions, the proposed Sacramento-San Joaquin water conveyance system is a financial heavyweight of a project. Five years of construction would create an historic new piece of California’s infrastructure that would funnel water from the Sacramento River Delta southward through the city of Tracy and beyond. Ultimately, the project would move water toward the thirsty cities and farmland of southern Californ...

image courtesy SacramentoRiverDelta.net In a push to provide more water for agribusiness and residents of southern California, Governor Jerry Brown has proposed a pair of 40 mile tunnels to move water from the Sacramento River Delta to the town of Tracy, a project with a price tag anywhere from $24 to $50 billion in construction, conservation and operational costs. The tunnels are the centerpiece of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, a program designed to balance the water needs of communities an...

Chevron refinery emits pollutants in Los Angeles. Credit: DeviantArt In an effort to reduce emissions and running contrary to national trends, California cap and trade testing has begun, with full implementation coming soon. Proposed as a market-based solution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the cap and trade system has been falling in and out of political favor for years. At the Governor's Global Climate Summit in 2008, then President-elect Obama promised that he would help create “a fede...