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Litigation

Dec. 4, 2013

Environmental groups sue state in battle over agricultural runoff

A coalition of environmental and fishing groups has sued the state, claiming it is failing to curb pollution that runs off farmland and into waterways and drinking water wells along California's central coast.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A coalition of environmental and fishing groups has sued the state, claiming it is failing to curb pollution that runs off farmland and into waterways and drinking water wells along California's central coast.


The long-running issue has come to a head after state water quality officials weakened a rule that for the first time would address the nitrates and pesticides that drain from the region'...

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