-The Daily Journal, September 9, 2010 by Fiona Smith
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The unreasonable use claims, combined with the public trust doctrine “have really been sleeping giants in California water politics, policy and law and I’m not surprised to see them coming to the fore,” said Richard Frank, executive director of UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment and member of a recent task force that advised the governor on delta policy.
-The Capitol Weekly, September 10, 2010 by Richard M. Frank
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The Delta Smelt, which stands precipitously close to extinction as a result of those activities, now depends on the Endangered Species Act for its survival. PLF’s ill-considered court challenge to federal efforts to preserve the smelt is without legal merit. It also represents fundamentally unsound public policy. The Delta deserves to be protected and restored. So does the Delta smelt.