FEATURE ARTICLE
Highly-Anticipated Groundwater Sustainability Plans Emerge for California’s ‘Critically Overdrafted’ Groundwater Basins by Derek Hoffman, Esq. and
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CALIFORNIA WATER NEWS
President Trump’s Visit to Bakersfield Results in Executive Memorandum for Adoption of CVP and State Water Project Biological Opinions—California Files Suit173
Salton Sea Species Management Program Report Outlines Progress and the Path Forward174
REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS
California Department of Water Resources Refuses to Accept Coordination Agreement for GSPs in Madera Subbasin177
California Fish and Game Commission Adopts New Striped Bass Policy for the Delta179
LAWSUITS FILED OR PENDING
State Class Action Filed Challenging Public Agencies’ Retail Water Rates Under California’s Proposition 218181
RECENT FEDERAL DECISIONS
Circuit Court of Appeals:
D.C. Circuit Finds CERCLA Cost Recovery Claim Against the
Federal Government Fails Due to Previous Clean Water Act Consent
Decree183
Government of Guam v. United States of America, ___F.3d___, Case No. 19-5131 (D.C. Cir. Feb. 14, 2020).
District Court:
District Court Holds Clean Water Act Citizen Suit Alleging Stormwater Discharges Into San Francisco Bay Survives Motion to Dismiss185
Eden Environmental Citizen’s Group, LLC v. American Custom Marble, Inc., ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 19-CV-03424-EMC (N.D. Cal. Feb. 13, 2020).
Court of Federal Claims Rejects ‘Takings Claims’ Related to Hurricane Harvey Downstream Flooding Cases187
In re Downstream Addicks and Barker (Texas) Flood-Control Reservoir, ___F.Supp.3d___, Case No. 17-9002 (Fed. Cl. Feb. 18, 2020).
RECENT CALIFORNIA DECISIONS
District Court of Appeal:
Fourth District Court Finds Certified Local Coastal Plan, Not the Coastal Act Regulation, Governs City’s Coastal Development of Housing Facility189
Citizens for South Bay Coastal Access v. City of San Diego, ___Cal.App.5th___, Case No. D075387 (4th Dist. Feb. 18, 2020).
Fifth District Court Holds Kern County Oil and Gas Activity Ordinance Invalid191
King and Gardiner Farms, LLC, et al. v. County of Kern, et al., ___Cal.App.5th___, Case No. F077656 (5th Dist. Feb. 25, 2020).
