Citing the LA fires, Trump directed federal agencies to “immediately take actions to override” water operations and ...

Citing the Los Angeles fires, Trump directed federal agencies to "immediately take actions to override" water operations and ...

Trump's pledge to pump more water in California came after a reduction in pumping at a federal facility due to maintenance.

Citing the LA fires, Trump directed agencies to "immediately take actions to override" water operations and environmental rules. But the water mostly serves Central Valley farms.

The president’s latest executive order signed Sunday wants to bypass environmental protections and boost water infrastructure projects.

Two Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation in California to allow residents who have damages from natural disasters to ...

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order yesterday that told federal agencies to “immediately take action” to deliver more Central Valley water and eliminate rules that stand ...

In the new order, Trump cited the Los Angeles fires, even though the actions he is ordering — delivering more water from the federal Central Valley Project — would primarily serve farms.

Experts said it involves two water storage and delivery systems — the federally managed Central Valley Project (or CVP) and the state-controlled State Water Project (or SWP), from which Kern ...