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Via CalMatters: California ranchers intentionally violated an emergency water order. Now lawmakers want to triple the fines
“The board doesn’t have the tools to act quickly,” said Michael Kiparsky, water program director at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at UC Berkeley School of Law. “The fish don’t care if the lawyers are trying to figure out who’s right or wrong if they’re dead.”
https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/06/california-water-fines/
CalMattersCalifornia ranchers intentionally violated an emergency water order. Now lawmakers want to triple the finesA bill would triple the fines. Even at $10,000 a day, a rancher who violated an order said, “I'm not so sure we wouldn't have done it again.”