Legislature rejects GOP bill on water storage fund
In one of the first rejections of a new bill this year, a Senate committee struck down a Republican proposal to establish a water storage and conveyance fund. Two moderate Democrats had joined as co-authors and another voted in favor of the bill. But the majority of lawmakers sided with arguments from the Natural Resources Defense Council that the measure was too focused on building the Sites Reservoir project, a proposal that still awaits a thorough environmental review.