{"id":2738,"date":"2018-09-19T22:04:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T22:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ejcw.org\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2018-09-19T22:12:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T22:12:16","slug":"press-release-favorable-ruling-in-battle-for-stronger-ag-pollution-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ejcw.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/19\/press-release-favorable-ruling-in-battle-for-stronger-ag-pollution-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release: &#8220;Favorable Ruling in Battle for Stronger Ag Pollution Rules&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ejcw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/We-Win-Again_FINAL.pdf\">We Win Again_FINAL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Immediate Release: 9\/19\/2018<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact:<br \/>\nSteve Shimek, The Otter Project and Monterey Coastkeeper, 831-663-9460 (w), 831-241-8984(c)<br \/>\nNoah Oppenheim, PCFFA, (415)561-5080<br \/>\nColin Bailey, The Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, 916-432-EJCW(3529);<br \/>\nKira Redmond or Ben Pitterle, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, 805-563-3377;<br \/>\nBill Jennings, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, 209-464-5067<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Judges Rule \u2013 Again \u2013 That State Must Do More to Curb Agricultural Pollution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>Conservation, Environmental Justice and Fishing Groups Applaud Favorable Ruling in Long-Fought Battle for Stronger Ag Pollution Rules<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(9\/19\/2018, Sacramento) Yesterday, 9\/18\/2018, the California Court of Appeals 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0District upheld a 2015 Superior Court ruling affirming claims made by conservation, environmental justice and fishing groups that the State has failed in its duty to protect public health and the environment from agricultural pollution on California\u2019s Central Coast.\u00a0 This ruling will have far-reaching implications for how agricultural pollution is regulated across the entire state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The appellate court struck down the State order for Central Coast\u2019s chronic agricultural pollution because it fails to comport with State law and policy, and ultimately is not in the public interest.\u00a0 In doing so, the appellate court affirmed the groups\u2019 fundamental claim that regulation of agricultural pollution must be based on the state\u2019s Nonpoint Source Pollution Policy, that the State Water Resources Board essentially ignored. Despite siding with the State on two minor points related to tiering and monitoring, the appellate court found that the order is illegal and directed the State to go back to the drawing board and write a new order that complies with the law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ruling comes five years after the coalition of nonprofit organizations and an elderly woman whose tap water is too contaminated with agricultural waste to drink filed suit in Sacramento Superior Court challenging the Central Coast \u201cConditional Waiver of Waste Discharge Requirements for Discharges from Irrigated Agriculture\u201d (also known as the Ag Order) and amendments made by the State Water Resources Control Board to cripple the already weak order. The coalition alleged the Ag Order was so weak it did not comply with state law and allowed ongoing pollution of groundwater and surface waters throughout the region impacting drinking, swimming, fishing, and other uses. The coalition included Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, The Otter Project, The Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen\u2019s Associations, and California Sportfishing Protection Alliance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experts conclude that current trends will make much of the groundwater in California\u2019s primary agricultural regions undrinkable by 2050. Already, perhaps as many as a million people in California\u2019s rural agricultural regions lack clean drinking water in the richest state in the richest country in the world.[i]\u00a0For decades the State Water Resources Control Board and regional boards have failed to control water pollution caused by wasteful agricultural practices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2015, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley ordered the State and Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board to create a new scheme that better protect human health, the environment, surface water and groundwater from agricultural pollution.\u00a0 Instead of doing so, the State Attorney General and the largest agricultural interests in California appealed the 2015 Superior Court decision.\u00a0 Despite Judge Frawley\u2019s ruling declaring that the Central Coast Ag Order does not comply with the law and fails to protect the public interest, the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board simply extended \u201cessentially the same order\u201d (the Board\u2019s own words) in 2017 for another three years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Appellate Court\u2019s three-judge panel heard the State\u2019s appeal on July 16, 2018. The hearing lasted less than 30 minutes, with the panel asking pointed questions of the State and agriculture representatives. At times the judges seemed openly skeptical of their replies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is unclear whether the State and agricultural interests will pursue review by the State Supreme Court or will make earnest efforts to comply with California law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis ruling is a huge victory for waterways, coastlines, and communities that are impacted by chronic and severe agricultural pollution,\u201d said Santa Barbara Channelkeeper\u2019s Ben Pitterle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAgriculture has every right to use the public\u2019s water, but they do not have the right to return it so polluted that it kills the life that lives in it and depends on it,\u201d said Steve Shimek, Executive Director of The Otter Project and Monterey Coastkeeper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe court is clear: The Non-point Source (NPS) policy is\u00a0<em>mandatory<\/em>. The State cannot modify or dilute it through Agricultural Orders. This will help Central Coast communities to realize the Human Right to Water in the years to come,\u201d said Colin Bailey, Executive Director of The Environmental Justice Coalition for Water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe decision is yet another significant victory by those whose livelihood and health is dependent upon clean water to compel regulatory agencies to enforce laws enacted to protect our rivers and fisheries,\u201d said Bill Jennings, Executive Director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAgricultural pollution is one of the deepest of the thousand cuts keeping California\u2019s fisheries from recovery. Agencies that aid and abet polluters keep standing in the way of our progress to restore Central Coast fishing jobs, and we therefore applaud this common-sense ruling,\u201d said Noah Oppenheim, Executive Director of Pacific Coast Federation of Fishing Associations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"># # #<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A copy of the filed lawsuit and additional background can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.otterproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Coastkeeper-I-Appellate-Decision.pdf%20\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.otterproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Coastkeeper-I-Appellate-Decision.pdf%2520&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1537479648683000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGkLRhJdgS662OHRLqSpMSUBFCWYg\">http:\/\/www.otterproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Coastkeeper-I-Appellate-Decision.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[i]\u00a0See numbered page 5 (pdf 17) at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/groundwaternitrate.ucdavis.edu\/files\/138956.pdf\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/groundwaternitrate.ucdavis.edu\/files\/138956.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1537479648683000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEbeK9F3gA6k6RrrGWmyb1uQRBreA\">http:\/\/groundwaternitrate.ucdavis.edu\/files\/138956.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release:\u00a0We Win Again_FINAL For Immediate Release: 9\/19\/2018 For more information contact: Steve Shimek, The Otter Project and Monterey Coastkeeper, 831-663-9460 (w), 831-241-8984(c) Noah Oppenheim, PCFFA, (415)561-5080 Colin Bailey, The Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, 916-432-EJCW(3529); Kira Redmond or Ben Pitterle, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, 805-563-3377; Bill Jennings, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, 209-464-5067 Judges Rule \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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