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The Endangered Species Act and water uncertainty aren't going away anytime soon

March 03, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Brandon Middleton Much has been made about the Bureau of Reclamation's announcement last week that farmers in the western San Joaquin Valley will receive 30% of their contractual water allotments if 2010 is an average water year.  As I mentioned earlier this week, that's a very big "if."  The San Francisco Chro ...

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The Constitution is (fortunately) a stubborn document

January 25, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Brandon Middleton The Natural Resource Defense Council's Barry Nelson doesn't like what Pacific Legal Foundation is doing when it comes to California's water. (See his NRDC Switchboard blog post, "Facts are stubborn things"). According to Nelson, PLF and others have been "particularly careful to ignore facts that ...

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The ramifications of the Obama administration's man-made California drought

January 25, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Brandon Middleton Big Government's John Loudon has a great article on why it's important for the entire country to wake up and realize that the Obama administration is putting fish before people. Loudon explains that the ramifications of cutting off water to the San Joaquin Valley go far beyond California: As for the rest … ...

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PLF asks Ninth Circuit to invalidate delta smelt restrictions

January 25, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Brandon Middleton Today, Pacific Legal Foundation attorneys will file an appeal to the Ninth Circuit, asking the court to invalidate the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's delta smelt water cutbacks as unconstitutional. The appeal will be filed not only on behalf of PLF's farming clients (Stewart & Jasper Orchards, Arroyo Farms, a ...