Republicans accuse Biden of favoring fish over farms
House Republicans from California are questioning the Biden administration’s draft plans for one of the state’s major water delivery projects, asserting the proposals “disproportionately favor environmental objectives” over agricultural users. California Rep. David Valadao and nearly a dozen of his GOP colleagues inked a Wednesday letter to the Bureau of Reclamation, the Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries, urging the agencies to give more consideration to agriculture users who rely on the federal Central Valley Project (CVP) and State Water Project. The administration is weighing new operating plans for the CVP, which along with the State Water Project moves flows from California’s wetter north to farmland in the south.