In an appeal filed by attorneys with Pacific Legal Foundation, the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is being asked to strike down federal Delta smelt regulations that have led to devastating cutbacks on water pumping from the Delta to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California.
The pumping reductions amount to a “regulatory drought” that exacerbates the water shortages that already are plaguing much of the state, according to PLF.
“We are asking the Ninth Circuit to put the brakes on out-of-control federal bureaucracies that are depriving farms and communities of the most vital resource—water,” said PLF Attorney Damien Schiff. “The court should reassert basic constitutional restraints on federal power. The Delta smelt has no role in interstate commerce, so federal regulators have no authority to issue any edicts about the Delta smelt, let alone draconian water-pumping reductions that threaten our economy and our food security.”
Watch coverage of PLF’s press conference from KXTV, Channel 10, Sacramento’s ABC affiliate: .
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