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Do fireworks require a Clean Water Act permit?

January 16, 2014 | By DAMIEN SCHIFF

Yes, according to a new lawsuit filed in federal court in Sacramento against the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority and a fireworks operator.  The lawsuit contends that the Lake Tahoe fireworks shows cause considerable environmental harm to Lake Tahoe, through discharges of trash, chemical residues, and other pollutants from the boats from which the fi ...

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Press coverage on the Gualala Fireworks case argument

March 23, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff From the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. … ...

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Oral argument Monday in the Gualala fireworks case

March 19, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff On Monday, I’ll be presenting argument in the First District Court of Appeal, 350 McAllister Street, 4th floor, in San Francisco.  The appeal, on the 9 a.m. calendar, is in Gualala Festivals Committee v. California Coastal Commission, and concerns whether the Commission can put the kibosh on the Committee’s ...