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Latest Delta lawsuit could pack a wallop

Posted by: Maven on September 8, 2010 at 9:26 am

From Mike Taugher, this time at the Oakland Tribune:

“In the latest salvo in a raging legal war over the Delta environment and its water, environmentalists on Friday sued to force state regulators to use the same ancient legal powers they used to prevent Los Angeles from drying up Mono Lake in the 1980s.

The lawsuit sidesteps the legal and scientific battles over the region’s endangered species and instead demands regulators apply their powers to consider “public trust” values under a doctrine that has roots in the laws of ancient Rome.

Those values can include a wide variety of things, including the future viability of commercial salmon runs, aesthetic beauty and recreational attributes of the coast’s biggest estuary. … “


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MORE COVERAGE: AquAlliance among groups suing state water agencies, from the Chico Enterprise-Record

September 8, 2010 · Filed Under Delta Issues

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