Tag: California Water

Ex Calif. official says Jerry Brown ordered regulators to bypass US water law

Representative for Jerry Brown says accusations ‘baseless’ SAN FRANCISCO – California’s top oil and gas regulators repeatedly warned Gov. Jerry Brown’s senior aides in 2011 that the governor’s orders to override key safeguards in granting oil industry permits would violate state and federal laws protecting the state’s groundwater from contamination, one of the former officials has testified. […]