Environmentalists and a salmon fishing group unsuccessfully lobbied a California Senate committee to reject Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reappointment of a veteran State Water Resources Control Board member last week, as tensions over the board’s upcoming vote on a controversial update to water policy for the Sacramento and San Joaquin watersheds spilled into the gubernatorial appointment process. Gov. Gavin Newsom nominated Dorene D’Adamo to her fourth term on the board earlier this year, ahead of an expected September vote on the Bay-Delta Plan. … D’Adamo has been a voice on the board for powerful interests such as the agricultural industry and urban water districts interests, her opponents charged at a May 6 hearing of the Senate Rules Committee.

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