9th Circuit panel rejects challenge to delta water contracts
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 00:30
in Earth & Climate
Judicial panel upholds a ruling that environmental groups have no legal authority to challenge the 2005 deals, which the judges found did not threaten the delta smelt.A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that federal water supply contracts awarded in 2005 did not violate protections for the endangered delta smelt, a small fish native to California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta estuary.