Sentences with phrase «statewide water issues»

She will not be attending a joint Senate - Assembly hearing on statewide water issues to be held in September.

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Heastie's hearings are taking a broader approach to water issues, assessing water concerns statewide.

In April, the governor issued the first mandatory statewide water use restrictions in California history, after snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains — which provide 60 percent of the state's water — fell to the lowest levels ever recorded.

This year, the Senate GOP has pointed to a $ 2.5 billion package on clean water spending, which came after a series of statewide hearings on the issue.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a Republican vying for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring GOP lawmaker Hugh Farley, called on the conference he wants to join to hold hearings on the PFOA water contamination issue in Hoosick Falls as well as water issues statewide.

Billed as a hearing on statewide water quality and contamination, the daylong hearing did briefly touch on issues of lead in the water of New York City's schools and a similar tainted - water problem in Newburgh, in the Hudson Valley.

Key environmental issues include $ 300 million for the Environmental Protection Fund, an ongoing investment in funds for clean drinking water and infrastructure and $ 65 million to combat algal blooms statewide.

California, suffering record low snowfalls, has issued statewide requirements for municipal water conservation and rationing of water that are reminiscent of gasoline controls in the 1970s.

Then dry water years struck from 2007 — 2009 — the first time in California's history that statewide declarations of emergency were issued for drought, according to the California Department of Water Resouwater years struck from 2007 — 2009 — the first time in California's history that statewide declarations of emergency were issued for drought, according to the California Department of Water ResouWater Resources.