A trio of environmental groups is suing the Bureau of Reclamation, alleging excessive pumping out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that harms fish species.
San Francisco Baykeeper, Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the River allege Reclamation violated the Endangered Species Act by exceeding regulations to limit the Central Valley Project’s impacts on Central Valley steelhead, North American green sturgeon and Chinook salmon.
“The Bureau continues to violate the water export rules it proposed as recently as 2024,” said Eric Buescher, managing attorney for San Francisco Baykeeper. “Those rules, which were embedded in permits to operate the Central Valley Project, are inadequate to protect San Francisco Bay’s endangered fishes.”
