Judge orders U.S. to revise salmon safeguards
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 00:30
in Earth & Climate
Jurist also rules that a federal agency was justified in finding that exporting water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta jeopardizes endangered species.A judge ordered a federal agency Tuesday to rewrite protections for migrating salmon that have reduced water shipments from Northern California, concluding that some of the pumping curbs were based on "equivocal or bad science."