Would the ruling on Chevron have any relevance to this?
“Would the ruling on Chevron have any relevance to this?”
No this is a State water board ordering a corporation to cease and desist. The State owns all surface waters in California and any ground water that feeds a surface water as a source of that surface water as well. This is a state’s right’s issue the Fed’s should have never been involved in the first place. It’s not a navigable waters of the USA so EPA and fedgov should bugger off. California has the water laws the elected representatives passed. Don’t like them get different reps and change the state level laws that’s how it’s supposed to work. The fact that a fed judge even has say is a affront to the tenth amendment.