Editorial: Exhaustive Desalination Plant Process Upheld by State Court
From the Marin Independent Journal:
ONE of the frequent criticisms of California’s environmental planning law is that it has become a source of lawsuits.
Cities, counties and other public agencies may try to prepare environmental impact reports so that they are “bulletproof,” invulnerable to costly lawsuits, but they usually are the biggest last-ditch targets for legal challenges.
Given that trend, it was not surprising that the North Coast Rivers Alliance, an environmental group, filed a lawsuit contesting the adequacy of the multi-million-dollar environmental impact report prepared by the Marin Municipal Water District for its proposal to build a desalination plant along San Rafael Bay.
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