A federal judge declined on Thursday to halt Northern California water infrastructure projects that a group of environmental nonprofits say will harm several vulnerable fish species. Denying a temporary restraining order, U.S. District Judge Jennifer Thurston said neither the plaintiffs — the Center for Biological Diversity, the San Francisco Baykeeper and Friends of the River — nor the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation provided her an argument on how to interpret the terms of a Endangered Species Act biological opinion for the Central Valley Project. … In their March lawsuit, the three environmental organizations say the projects threaten fish like the Chinook salmon, steelhead trout and Northern American green sturgeon.

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