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ABOUT THE AUTHOR : ANNIE SNIDER Annie Snider covers water issues for POLITICO Pro, including battles over the scope of the Clean Water Act, drought, water pollution and efforts to restore large ecosystems. Prior to joining POLITICO, Snider spent five years reporting for Greenwire and Environment & Energy Daily, a post that took her from the halls of Congress to the swamps of Louisiana to an aircraft carrier off the coast of Hawaii. Snider is a graduate of Davidson College and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She lives in Maryland with her husband, a fellow journalist. CALIFORNIA CLIMATE - POLITICO ARCHIVE * TUESDAY, 11/21/23 * MONDAY, 11/20/23 * FRIDAY, 11/17/23 * THURSDAY, 11/16/23 * WEDNESDAY, 11/15/23 * View the Full California Climate Archives » * MOST READ 1. HOUSE GOP'S BIDEN IMPEACHMENT EFFORT HEADS INTO FINAL STAGE 2. ‘DID TRUMP CHANGE, OR DID YOU?’: WE ASKED A PRO-IMPEACHMENT REPUBLICAN WHY HE’D BACK TRUMP 3. BIDEN URGED TO GO BIG ON SOCIAL SECURITY AS A WAY TO BEAT TRUMP 4. CORNEL WEST SETS HIS SIGHTS ON A KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE 5. WASHINGTON BLINKS AS DEBT COSTS BEGIN TO BITE A WIND FARM AND A MARINE SANCTUARY WALK INTO A BAR… By WES VENTEICHER and ANNIE SNIDER 11/14/2023 09:00 PM EST With help from Blanca Begert and Alex Nieves A wind farm and a Chumash-designated national marine sanctuary collide at Morro Bay. | Mario Tama/Getty Images EVERYTHING CALIFORNIA ALL AT ONCE: It’ll be years before a wind farm rises in the deep waters off California’s Central Coast, but conflicts over the project are already here. The California coast is playing host to three of the Biden administration’s policy priorities: clean energy, environmental conservation and tribal relations. Those objectives are colliding with one another in a proposal to create a new marine sanctuary between Morro Bay and the Channel Islands. The Morro Bay area is important to both wind developers and the tribes. It’s one of only two places where wind developers can connect to transmission lines big enough to accommodate all the power they’re planning to bring in. The developers want the sanctuary to exclude Morro Bay, at least for now, so they can lay cables along the seafloor and potentially locate substations there. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration acknowledged those concerns in an August proposal and carved out a 58-mile pathway for the cables. A NOAA proposal to carve out a section of the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary to accommodate offshore wind cables is facing pushback from Indigenous tribes. An offshore wind farm is planned near the proposed sanctuary's northwestern corner. | NOAA At least five tribes don’t like that. To them, the bay, with its prominent round rock, is one of the most sacred sites in the area and links them to their ancestors. They don’t want a carve-out there and have told NOAA as much. “NOAA is leaving our ocean relatives unprotected and unaccounted for in one of the most important places for all our tribes in the region,” said two Salinan groups, two Chumash groups and a band of Mission Indians in a letter to the agency last month. Wind developers say the gap at Morro Bay needs to extend even farther south, to Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, so they can also connect to transmission lines there. And they need more certainty they’ll be able to lay cables through the sanctuary, they told NOAA. Otherwise financing for the projects could be at risk, they said in the letter. Molly Croll, who represents the developers as American Clean Power’s Pacific offshore wind director, said the proposal as is presents a “significant risk” for the project. Croll and others involved in the project are optimistic about another option: keep the carve-out for now and then expand the sanctuary later, as was done with the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary off the Texas coast in the Gulf of Mexico. NOAA is analyzing filings from the developers, the tribes and thousands of other people to decide whether it will make any changes, said Paul Michel, the West Coast regional policy coordinator for NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, to whom many of the comment letters are addressed. Time is of the essence: The agency is working to finalize the sanctuary before the presidential election in 2024, when its prospects could change. — WV Did someone forward you this newsletter? Sign up here! 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The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s new board chair, Adán Ortega, and board member Glen Peterson of Las Virgenes Municipal Water District have been trading a series of back-and-forths ahead of today’s board meeting over how the vote played out between San Diego’s Jim Madaffer and the Imperial Irrigation District’s J.B. Hamby, who ultimately won the top spot. Peterson told the Desert Sun last month that he was “summarily dismissed” after refusing to vote for Madaffer — a narrative Ortega’s been on a tear to counter. Peterson in turn used today’s board meeting to pick at that account. It’s not just personalities clashing in playground fashion — although they definitely are. The fight is ultimately about Met’s relationship with San Diego. For years the two were sworn enemies, with the San Diego County Water Authority suing Met repeatedly, accusing it of charging too much for water deliveries. But that relationship is thawing now, thanks to Ortega — who rose to Met’s top spot last fall with the backing of San Diego — and Met’s new general manager, Adel Hagekhalil, who was elected two years ago also thanks to San Diego. Peterson, for his part, represents the old guard that had viewed San Diego’s litigation as frivolous and its moves to diversify its water supply using desalination and other expensive measures as ill planned. That realignment matters now, more than ever, as the rules that govern the drought-shrunken Colorado River are up for renegotiation. What Madaffer and other San Diego interests want is new rules that enable greater flexibility to move water around. On that point, they’ve already got a win: At today’s board meeting, Met’s directors approved a measure that would allow San Diego to take some of its most expensive water off its balance sheet this year, instead having the Bureau of Reclamation pick up the tab for a portion of the water it transfers from the Imperial Valley and leave it in Lake Mead. — AS ARNIE AWARD: The Benchmark Week conference kicked off today at the Ritz Carlton in Los Angeles. For the next three days, EV battery supply chain players will come together to talk everything from tech to geopolitics alongside automakers like Rivian, lithium giants like SQM, graphite miners and battery-makers. Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made a surprise appearance at this morning’s keynote to receive the Inaugural Benchmark Lifetime Achievement Award (presented by Stanley Whittingham, the father of the lithium-ion battery) for “his visionary leadership in rapidly advancing clean, sustainable energy initiatives.” “I love renewable energy, and I love what we’re doing here with lithium and how we are going to be the future,” he said. “And lithium is of course the new oil, as far as I’m concerned.” He expressed frustration with delays in bringing lithium online at the Salton Sea, which companies have attributed to permitting delays, although analysts have also noted funding shortfalls and struggles with scaling the technology. “By 2024, we should already have our 2,500 tons of lithium,” he said, referring to Controlled Thermal Resources’ original plan to deliver that much next year. “We have to wait another year. 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SoCalGas Chief Clean Fuels Officer Neil Navin will be speaking about hydrogen’s role in the energy future of Kern, where several projects have been proposed that would produce hydrogen with biomass as well as with fossil fuels at oil field sites. — For some transit mobility advocates, the response to the 10 Freeway closure in Los Angeles shows how quickly the government can move when it wants to. — The Fifth National Climate Assessment breaks down in detail the worsening impacts of climate change on life in the United States — and the path to net zero by 2050 is narrow. — Companies, including California-based Oklo, are developing small nuclear reactors that are fast and cheap to build, but the future of nuclear still faces enormous hurdles. 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