For a small fish only found in the San Francisco Estuary, the delta smelt has caused a lot of controversy over the years.

It’s tiny, it’s silver and it’s at the center of a decades-long controversy over California’s water system. It’s the delta smelt. This threatened fish lives exclusively in the Sacramento-San Joaquin ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order to allow federal agencies to override state policies to maximize water amid ...

It's an attempt to change the environmental protections of the smelt, a three-inch-long fish once vital to California's ...

Trump's order is premised on the idea that increasing Delta pumping would make more water available for the rest of ...

And it aligns with his broader anti-environmental agenda.” Followers of California water politics have long known the delta smelt as a key indicator species for the health of a fragile ecosystem. The ...

California's water system has remained a complex topic and was recently put into the spotlight by President Donald Trump's ...

A Trump executive order directs agencies to 'to route more water' across the state. But some say there's a lot more at stake.

California Democrats want fire victims to sue oil and gas companies. President Donald Trump wants them to have access to more ...

President Donald Trump is taking executive action to override California's "actively harmful ... such as the Delta smelt. The order comes just weeks after Trump accused Gov.

The new president would have to quickly change his own regulations to produce more water. That’s not how things work, writes ...

It's an attempt to change the environmental protections of the smelt, a three-inch-long fish once vital to California's ecosystem but now nearly extinct, and criticize the state's efforts while ...