{"id":239520,"date":"2026-03-27T17:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239520\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:34:06","slug":"enviro-tribal-groups-press-california-governor-to-oppose-shasta-dam-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239520\/","title":{"rendered":"Enviro, tribal groups press California governor to oppose Shasta Dam raise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, California \u2014 Environmental groups asked Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday to oppose the Trump administration\u2019s renewed efforts to raise the Shasta Dam in Northern California.<\/p>\n<p>What happened: Fifty environmental, fishing and tribal groups, including Friends of the River and the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=0000019d-2c40-da49-afff-7fe086f30000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sent a letter<\/a> to Newsom on Thursday urging him to \u201cstand up\u201d to the Trump administration after <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/2026\/03\/feds-540m-california-water-00833095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">it carved out $40 million<\/a> this month as a down payment on a tentative plan to raise the Shasta Dam to send more water to Central Valley farmers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank you for your past support, and urge you to continue standing firm against this unlawful and destructive proposal and to make clear that California will not acquiesce to federal efforts that undermine our laws, our Tribes, and our rivers,\u201d the environmental groups wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Newsom administration did not respond by publication time, but spokesperson Tara Gallegos <a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/environment\/2026\/03\/shasta-dam-raise-trump-westlands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">previously told CalMatters<\/a>, \u201clet\u2019s not get distracted by conceptual projects, years from viability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, California \u2014 Environmental groups asked Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday to oppose the Trump administration\u2019s renewed efforts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-239520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}