Blog: Protecting Businesses and Their Owners
Current Agricultural Environmental Issues
This article which ran in the Central Valley Ag Supplement of the Fresno Business Journal provides a summary of the areas of water quality and water supply issues that are the most compelling.Basin Plans The state Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act requires the...
Third Appellate District’s “narrow” opinion could have far reaching impacts on SGMA, groundwater rights, and groundwater extractions.
In Environmental Law Foundation et al., v. State Water Resources Control Board(“Environmental Law Foundation”) the Third Appellate District of the State of California (the “Court”) held (1) the Public Trust Doctrine applies to the extraction of groundwater that adversely impacts a navigable waterway; and (2) the State Legislature did not intend to occupy the field of groundwater management by enacting the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (“SGMA”) in 2014.
Central Valley BizFed Meeting to be held at Coleman & Horowitt LLP
Comments on AB 617 Blueprint
Coleman & Horwitt LLP assisted the Manufacturer's Council of the Central Valley as well as the Central Valley BizFed in drafting comments to the California Air Resources Board's AB 617 Blueprint. The comments are set out below.
Making America’s Patent System Great Again
The Restoring American Leadership in Innovation Act of 2018 was recently introduced by a bipartisan group of members of the House.