<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; "><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/4/1480082/-Cold-Dead-Fish-Awards-For-2015">http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/4/1480082/-Cold-Dead-Fish-Awards-For-2015</a></span><div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3c3736"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3c3736"><img alt="acwa1.jpg" class="img-responsive" data-src="http://images.dailykos.com/images/205078/story_image/acwa1.jpg?1454625197" title="acwa1.jpg" height="622" width="804" src="cid:ABD7BF6C-08F8-4367-B4AA-9DB05C614309"></font></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); line-height: 24px; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><i>For the fourth year in a row, Governor Jerry Brown has received the prestigious "Cold, Dead Fish" award. Photo of Jerry Brown by Joe McHugh, California Highway Patrol.</i></font></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3c3736" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3c3736" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3c3736" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">Cold, Dead Fish Awards for 2015 </span></font></div><div style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3c3736" face="'Open Sans'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3c3736" face="'Open Sans'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">by Dan Bacher</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; "><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; "><br></strong></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3c3736" face="'Open Sans'" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; ">The year 2015 will become infamous as the one when many California fish populations reached record low levels, largely due to poor water management by the state and federal governments. </span></font></span><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; "><br></strong></p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">The Bureau of Reclamation and Department of Water Resources continued to drain Trinity, Shasta, Oroville and Folsom reservoirs to record low levels during a record drought to supply subsidized water to corporate agribusiness interests, Southern California water agencies and oil companies conducting fracking operations.</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">The good news in an otherwise disturbing outlook is the first El Niño storms that arrived at the end of the year to start recharging reservoirs depleted due to mismanagement by the agencies. </p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">Folsom Lake dropped to a record low level of 14 percent by the end of November and early December – and other reservoirs around the state were plagued by record low water conditions.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">Winter run Chinook salmon, a federal and state endangered species, suffered from the second disastrous year in a row in the low, lethally warm conditions on the upper Sacramento River as almond growers continued to expand their water-intensive almond tree acreage on the west side of the San Joaquin..</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">Only 318,000 juvenile winter-run salmon survived in 2015, or just 3 percent of nearly 10 million eggs, according to a dramatic graph released by NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service on February 1. In comparison, just 5 percent of the salmon survived the previous year and 41 percent in 2011.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">"I think everyone tried to make it work and despite everybody's best efforts it still was too warm," claimed <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">Maria Rea</strong>, a deputy regional administrator with the service.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">For their failed plans to supposedly “save” the winter run, Rea and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">David Murillo</strong>, the MidPacific Director of the Bureau of Reclamation, each receive an “<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">Extinct Winter Run Chinook”</strong> award.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">As the water agencies continued to drain Central Valley reservoirs, they also continued to export water through the Delta pumps during the drought, driving Delta fish species closer and closer to extinction. (<a href="https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/05/18781526">https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/05/18781526</a>)</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">Fish species ranging from endangered Delta smelt to striped bass plunged to record low population levels in 2015 in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, as revealed in the annual fall survey report released on December 18 by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW).</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">Only 6 Delta smelt, an endangered species that once numbered in the millions and was the most abundant fish in the Delta, were collected at the index stations in the estuary this fall. The 2015 index (7), a relative number of abundance, “is the lowest in history,” said Sara Finstad, an environmental scientist for the CDFW’s Bay Delta Region.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">Longfin smelt, a cousin of the Delta smelt, also declined to the lowest abundance index (4) in the history of the survey. Only 3 longfin were collected at the index stations throughout the three-month period.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">The population of striped bass, a popular gamefish, declined to the second lowest level in history (52) Only 42 age 0 stripers were conducted at the survey stations.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">The 2015 abundance index (79) for American shad is also the lowest in history. Only 59 American shad were collected at the index stations.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">Finally, the abundance index (806) for threadfin shad, an introduced forage species. reached its eighth lowest level. The biologists collected 634 threadfin shad at the index stations.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">For their continuing service to the water contractors at catastrophic expense to our fish populations, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">Natural Resources Secretary John Laird, DWR Director Mark Cowin, CDFW Director Chuck Bonham and State Water Resources Control Board Chair Felicia Marcus</strong> each receive the “<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">Delta Destruction Derby”</strong> award.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">While those folks did “yeoman’s work” in their campaign to exterminate California fish populations, one individual, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">Ren Lohoefener</strong>, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">US Fish & Wildlife Service Regional Director</strong>, did more than anybody to sacrifice Delta smelt at the altar of corporate greed. Lohoefener allowed increased take of the smelt at the pumps in January 2015, due to a secret directive in December 2014. (<a href="http://www.kcet.org/news/redefine/rewild/fish/feds-quietly-double-allowable-take-of-delta-smelt.html">http://www.kcet.org/news/redefine/rewild/fish/feds-quietly-double-allowable-take-of-delta-smelt.html</a>)</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">Just days after the CDFW reported the Delta smelt population plummeted to a record low level in the fall 2014 survey, Roeenfener granted permission for the Central Valley Project and State Water Projects to double their killing of the smelt at the pumps. For this unforgivable act, Ren Lohoefener is granted the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">“Delta Smelt Killer”</strong> award.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">On May 19, a 9 mile long oil spill began off the Santa Barbara Coast after a badly corroded pipeline, carrying crude oil from offshore platforms deposited over 142,800 gallons (3,400 carrels) of crude onto one of the most biological diverse coastlines on the West Coast. The oil slick fouled four alleged “marine protected areas” - Naples, Kashtayit, Campus Point and Goleta Slough – created under the controversial Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">The oil damaged the coats, skin, beaks, and appendages of hundreds of animals – and workers eventually collected 202 dead birds and 99 dead mammals including at least 46 sea lions and 12 dolphins. However, the full impact on fish and smaller shellfish, barnacles and other small creatures in the food chain may not be known for decades.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">For their negligence in maintaining the grossly corroded pipeline, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">Plains American Pipeline CEO</strong> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">Greg. L Armstrong</strong> receives a <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">“Big Oil Destroyer”</strong> award. He is proudly bestowed this award along with <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">Catherine Reheis-Boyd</strong>, the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">President of the Western States Petroleum Association, </strong>who provided oil industry PR response to the spill, since the pipeline company is a member of her association. To make matters even worse, the very same oil lobbyist CHAIRED the MLPA Blue Ribbon Task Force to create the marine protected areas that were fouled by the spill!</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">Reheis-Boyd also gets another “prestigious” award for last year’s record oil industry “gusher” of lobbying expenses that ensured that no environmental bill opposed by Big Oil was able to make out of the Legislature unless it was amended, as in the case of SB 350, the green energy bill. The oil lobby broke its prior spending record, spending $22 million over the past year.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">WSPA spent a record $11 million on lobbying, making it the number one corporate lobbying spender in California for the fourth year in a row. Reheis-Boyd receives the<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">“Captured California” </strong>award for her successful capture of the regulatory apparatus in the state. (<a href="http://www.cadelivers.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Oil-Industry-Lobbying-2015-update-4_2.1.16._FINAL.pdf">http://www.cadelivers.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Oil-Industry-Lobbying-2015-update-4_2.1.16._FINAL.pdf</a>)</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">Speaking of the MLPA Initiative, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">Ron LeValley,</strong> the former co-chair of the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">MLPA Initiative “Science Advisory Team,</strong>” briefly hit the media spotlight when he got out of federal prison in the spring after serving 9-1/2 months for embezzling over $830,000 from the Yurok Tribe.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">“The legal experience did cost me quite a bit and I would like to pay off my bills,” said LeValley in a email to supporters. “So if you have a favorite photo, please order one from me! Many thanks to you all for the support I received while I was on ‘sabbatical.'" (<a href="http://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2016/01/01/2015-quotables">http://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2016/01/01/2015-quotables</a>)</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">For casually dismissing his prison sentence as a “sabbatical,” LeValley is granted the<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">“No Shame at All”</strong> award.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">A rotten drainage deal signed by the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">Westlands Water District</strong>, considered the “Darth Vader” of California water politics, and the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">Obama administration</strong> in September can be likened to the bank bailout of 2008: “The wealthy and powerful corporate interests that caused the crisis are allowed to exit the burning aircraft with golden parachutes,” quipped Tom Stokely of the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN).</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">In the deal that requires congressional approval, the administration will forgive the district’s $375 million interest-free repayment obligation to taxpayers for construction of the federal Central Valley Project, the massive apparatus that delivers water from the Delta to corporate agribusiness interests on the western San Joaquin Valley. The agreement also converts the district’s current two-year water contracts to a permanent contract for up to 890,000 acre-feet of water annually, subject to the availability of water, according to Stokely.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">For their successful effort to bail Westlands out<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">, Tom Birminghman</strong>, the Westlands general manager, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">Secretary of Interior Sally Jewel,</strong> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">President Barack Obama</strong> and other administration officials are granted the “<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">Dirty Deal”</strong> award of 2015.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">Finally, there comes the most prestigious award, the “<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">Cold, Dead Fish.”</strong> For the fourth year in a row, I must give the award to Governor Jerry Brown, since no individual has done more in his power to destroy the fish, water and environment of California.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">As I mentioned already, 2015 California fish populations ranging from Delta smelt to striped bass dropped to record low levels under his watch. As Brown’s allies in the Obama administration continued to send winter run Chinook salmon, as well as the fall, late fall and spring runs, to the scaffold, Brown continued to promote anti-environmental policies that have surpassed those of any previous California administration.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">While Brown gushed about his "green energy" and carbon trading policies at the Paris Climate Conference in December and other photo opportunities throughout the year, he continued to enthusiastically support the expansion of fracking in California, rejecting calls to ban fracking from a coalition of over 200 environmental and public interests groups.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">He and his federal partners, after federal EPA scientists trashed the “science” of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP), instead divided the project into two components, the California Water Fix, the tunnels component, and the California Eco Restore, the “habitat” conservation component, in July. And this new fast-tracked project allowed for no public meetings; the “Fix was in” as many folks quipped.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">At this point, there are no environmental groups (with the exception of Jerry Meral’s Natural Heritage Institute), fishing groups or tribes that the support the project, but Brown continues to push this boondoggle forward, in spite of the fact that there is no example in U.S. or world history where a project that took more water out of a river resulted in ecosystem restoration.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">The project would hasten the extinction of Central Valley steelhead, Sacramento River winter and spring run Chinook salmon, Delta and longfin smelt, green sturgeon and other fish speciesm as well as imperil the salmon and steelhead populations on the Trinity and Klamath rivers.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">Proper accounting<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; "> </strong>for Brown’s other abysmal environmental policies would fill a very large book. Here are just a few:</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">• Brown supports carbon trading and REDD. REDD is the acronym for “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation,” but indigenous leaders throughout the world say REDD really means "Reaping profits from Evictions, land grabs, Deforestation and Destruction of biodiversity."</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">• His administration was beset with numerous environmental scandals, ranging from the resignation of his top oil regulator to the resignation of two Fish and Game Commissioners, Jim Kellogg and Jack Bayliss and the Commission’s Executive Director, Sonke Mastrup.</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">• Brown “completed” the faux “marine protected areas” developed under the privately funded Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative. These “marine protected areas, based on terminally flawed “science” and the violation of the gathering rights of the Yurok Tribe and other Tribes, fail to protect the ocean from fracking, offshore oil drilling, pollution, oil spills, military testing, corporate aquaculture and all human impacts on the ocean other than sustainable fishing and gathering. </p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">• And it was only after months of intense pressure from environmentalists, public health advocates and Porter Ranch residents that Governor Brown declared a state of emergency in the Aliso Canyon Gas Leak disaster that began on October 23. </p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; ">In an apparent familial conflict of interest, Brown’s sister, Kathleen, plays a significant role at Sempra Energy, the corporation that owns SoCalGas, the company responsible for the gas blowout. She earned $188,380 in her position as a board member in 2014 and $267,865 in 2013. (<a href="http://redgreenandblue.org/2015/12/19/jerry-browns-big-bad-ties-to-oil-and-gas-industry/">http://redgreenandblue.org/2015/12/19/jerry-browns-big-bad-ties-to-oil-and-gas-industry/</a>)</p><p style="color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; ">For his unprecedented war on fish, water and the environment as he poses as a “Green Governor” promoting “green energy” and addressing “climate change,” Brown recevies the “Cold, Dead Fish Award” for the fourth year in a row.</strong></p><div><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; "><br></strong></div></body></html>