{"id":98464,"date":"2020-04-01T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=98464"},"modified":"2020-04-01T16:01:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T23:01:01","slug":"senate-republican-leader-says-governors-latest-water-restrictions-could-harm-food-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=98464","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republican Leader Says Governor&#8217;s Latest Water Restrictions Could Harm Food Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove\u00a0(<em>R-Bakersfield<\/em>) issued the following statement after Governor Newsom&#8217;s administration released its Incidental Take Permit (ITP) which will govern water delivery within the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta for the California State Water Project (SWP). Included in the ITP are provisions which will reduce water supply for Kern County and other regions:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-98465\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-22.jpg 650w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-22-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-22-570x190.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>&#8220;As the Senate Republican Leader, I have worked alongside the Governor throughout the COVID-19 crisis to support efforts to mitigate the effects of this pandemic. However, I will not stand idly by while his actions put America&#8217;s food security in jeopardy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The Governor has disregarded our food producers, workers and families by proposing to restrict water flows to a region which supplies one of America&#8217;s most essential needs &#8211; food.<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;California grows much of the nation&#8217;s food and is home to the top three agricultural-producing counties. It is immoral to eliminate the water which grows the food that stocks America&#8217;s pantries. During a time when Californians are reliant on state leadership to support basic needs, the Governor needs to stand up and meet this moment by investing in our nation&#8217;s food security,&#8221; said Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove\u00a0(R-Bakersfield) issued the following statement after Governor Newsom&#8217;s administration released its Incidental Take Permit (ITP) which will govern water delivery within the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta for the California State Water Project (SWP). Included in the ITP are provisions which will reduce water supply for Kern County and other regions: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-22.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}