There has been a case swirling in California where the plaintiff, Mateel, sought to invalidate the existing safe harbor for lead exposure in that state. Businesses, including those serving the water industry, were worried that a successful result for the plaintiff would expose them to expensive lawsuits for selling products containing even trace amounts of […]
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Doing Business in California? Take Note of Changes to Nation’s Most-Stringent Toxicity Regulations
Recent proposed changes to California’s Proposition 65, “The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986,” have businesses and trade associations in a state of agitation—if not alarm—as some of the nation’s most stringent toxic substances regulations could become even stricter. Thirty years after the initiative was first adopted, the administrative body charged with […]
In search of Bounds: New Mexico Supreme Court Upholds State’s Domestic Well Permit Exemption
In 2013, the Supreme Court of New Mexico decided an important water rights case in Bounds v. State of New Mexico. The case involved a long-standing New Mexico statute which exempted domestic water wells from an extensive (and costly) permitting process. Don Gregory and Jeremiah Thomas discuss an amicus brief filed in the case by […]