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CSPA Major Enforcer of CWA in California
The State Water Resource Control Board’s Office of Enforcement has released a report titled Citizen Suit Enforcement Under the Federal Clean Water Act. The report analyzes citizen suits based upon Notices of Intent to Sue issued between March 2009 and June 2010. During that period, 15 organizations instituted 70 citizen enforcement actions. CSPA was responsible…
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CSPA Submits Comments on Extension of Agricultural Waiver
On 6 June 2011, CSPA and C-WIN submitted final comments on the proposed extension of the existing Irrigated Lands Program waiver to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board). The Regional Board will consider a two-year extension of the existing waiver at its 9 June 2011 hearing.
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Broad Coalition Urges EPA to Retain TMDL requirements for point and nonpoint sources
CSPA joined a broad coalition of 40 environmental organizations urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to retain the Agency’s 2010 revisions to the 2002 memorandum regarding pollutant load allocations from point and nonpoint sources in Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) plans. EPA has been under heavy pressure to rescind the 2010 revisions that strengthened…
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Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program Public Hearing
A Chance to Restore Fisheries and Water Quality in the Central Valley and Delta The “Clean Farms – Clean Water” campaign with over one hundred California environmental, commercial and recreational fishing, and environmental justice organizations will hold a rally and press conference in front of the Regional Board’s office when the Board breaks for lunch. …
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CSPA’s Jennings Quoted in Stockton Record: Regional Board farm program is a license to pollute
By Alex Breitler Record Staff Writer April 4, 2011 State Water Cops may approve a long-term plan this week to clean up runoff from millions of acres of farmland, despite the fact that after seven years of testing, they don’t know if a similar existing program has let to widespread water-quality improvement. The infamous “ag…
