John Earl

6 days ago | socalwaterwars.substack.com | John Earl

By Dan BacherSacramento, CA. — The unprecedented lobbying spending spree by Big Oil that took place in 2023 and 2024 has continued into 2025 as the oil industry spends millions to stop the Polluters Pay Superfund Act and other climate legislation. Gas and oil corporations spent a near-record pace of over $9 million to influence the California in the first three months of 2025, according to an analysis by Sunstone Strategies.

2 weeks ago | socalwaterwars.substack.com | John Earl

Southern California water agencies are at a critical crossroads. Can they be trusted to resist the Trump administration’s unconstitutional and reckless attempts to dismantle our democratic republic and undermine state laws designed to combat the escalating climate crisis? The stakes couldn’t be higher, as these actions threaten not only the very foundation of our governance but humanity’s ability to survive in the future environment of its own making.

3 weeks ago | socalwaterwars.substack.com | John Earl

What follows is not a scientifically conducted survey and is presented primarily for the purpose of stimulating discussion. However, I have spent a lot of time trying to get to know as much as possible about the origin of my 1400 subscribers by examining their email related information. For example, a simple google search reveals that [email protected] is a professor at University of Water in California.

1 month ago | socalwaterwars.substack.com | John Earl

On Feb. 26 President Donald Trump ordered a 30-day suspension of credit card use at all federal agencies, except for disaster-relief services approved by his newly created ad-hoc agency, Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by the Nazi-saluting richest person in the world, Elon Musk, who owns the social media platform, X.

1 month ago | socalwaterwars.substack.com | John Earl

Dear SoCal Water Wars readers:After covering SoCal water wars for 20 years, this is the only journalism award I’ve ever thought to be worth having. As an anti gentry-journalism journalist, I can tell you that it has never been about the money. It has been about producing good journalism for a good cause and being recognized for doing so, which is what the Dorothy Green and Dan Bacher Awards are all about. If you like my work, I would appreciate it if you would let the C-WIN awards committee know.