“The project would have to be paid for by ratepayers who are already overburdened with soaring utility costs and aren’t even aware of how the cost of this is going to impact them in their pocketbooks,” said state Sen. Jerry McNerney (D-Stockton).
State Sen. Jerry McNerney (D–Pleasanton), co-chair of the California Legislative Delta Caucus, called the plan “poorly conceived” and encouraged the Legislature to reject it. He said the tunnel project would destroy farmland, salmon fisheries and tribal resources.
State Sen. Jerry McNerney, D-Stockton, encouraged the Legislature to invest in alternative water supplies in a Wednesday statement.
“Governor Newsom’s proposal to fast-track the costly and destructive Delta Tunnel Project in the state budget is a poorly conceived plan that the Legislature should reject,” State Sen. Jerry McNerney, D-Stockton said.
“Governor Newsom’s proposal to fast-track the costly and destructive Delta Tunnel Project in the state budget is a poorly conceived plan that the Legislature should reject,” said Sen. Jerry McNerney, who is from Pleasanton.
Tri-Valley State Sen. Jerry McNerney held a virtual town hall meeting May 7 to help immigrants deal with “significant fear and anxiety” resulting from federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) stepped-up efforts to deport non-citizens.
Andrew Freedman, co-founder of new AI safety nonprofit Fathom, said legislation from California state Sen. Jerry McNerney that would establish voluntary review panels to test AI programs could be taken up by other states, creating an AI policy “that can be national, even if it’s not federal.”
Sen. Jerry McNerney is stepping into the fight over one of the biggest modern-day water projects in California — a tunnel to reroute more water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta south to farmers and cities — just as it’s heating up.
McNerney, who took office in December after 16 years in Congress, is joining Democrats who control the levers of power at the state Legislature who say they’re redoubling their efforts this year to give energy customers relief from steep energy bills.
