Tag: agriculture
-
Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Padilla Bills to Support Ecological Restoration Across California
Photo: Padilla highlights three California watershed restoration bills at ENR committee hearing. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a hearing on three of U.S. Senator Alex Padilla’s (D-Calif.) bipartisan bills to promote ecosystem restoration, water conservation, and drought resiliency across the Colorado, Sacramento, and San Joaquin River watersheds. The…
-
EPA Issues Emergency Order to Stop Use of Pesticide Dacthal to Address Serious Health Risk
WASHINGTON – Today, Aug. 6, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is announcing the emergency suspension of all registrations of the pesticide dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate (DCPA or Dacthal) under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). This is the first time in almost 40 years EPA has taken this type of emergency action, following several years of unprecedented efforts…
-
Turning agricultural waste to treasure
New funding will help Berkeley Lab and partners improve how the diverse agricultural waste in California’s Northern San Joaquin Valley can be used to make sustainable bioproducts and biofuels. In California’s Northern San Joaquin Valley, agricultural leftovers such as almond shells, fruit peels, and orchard trimmings can potentially be converted into sustainable bioproducts and biofuels…
-
The Uphill Battle of Removing Invasive Aquatic Vegetation
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes). Sisyphus of the Slough Before the turn of the 21st century, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta was dubbed one of the most biologically invaded estuaries in the world, with non-native plants at the root of the issue. Over 25 years later, the battle against invasive aquatic vegetation in the Delta continues at an…
-
Spotlight On The Pacific Flyway In The Sacramento Valley
(Row 1: Sandhill Cranes, Dowitcher; Row 2: Heron on pole, Northern Pintail; Row 3: Flying Sandhills, Ibis in Flight, Row 4: Ducks in Sutter County, Colusa Geese) The Pacific Flyway is one of four major North American migration routes for birds, especially waterfowl, and extends from Alaska and Canada, through California, to Mexico and South…
