August 31, 2011
A federal judge on Wednesday granted a bid by six California water authorities and interest groups to block a federal plan to change two water projects to protect the state's population of delta smelt, saying planned water supply reductions could cause irreparable harm.
April 08, 2011
Two environmental groups that intervened in a California lawsuit over Endangered Species Act protection for the delta smelt fish appealed a district court's ruling to the Ninth Circuit on Thursday.
December 15, 2010
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to re-examine and redraft portions of its rules protecting the endangered delta smelt in a long-awaited ruling in the fight between champions of the tiny fish and locals fed up with water usage restrictions designed to protect its habitat.