Although the Legislature has the authority to limit, or even abrogate, vested property rights in groundwater, it does so with implications of “taking” constitutionally-protected rights for which the state would be liable to compensate the property owners.
Gavin Newsom Is Determined To Have The Highest Gas Prices In The Country
There was a remarkable back and forth recently between Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo and California Gov. Gavin Newsom over California’s culpability for high gasoline prices on the West Coast. Lombardo sent Newsom a letter expressing concern over yet another California tax on energy, 2023’s SB X1-2 (the unartfully named California Gas Price Gouging and Transparency Law) and its spillover effects on Nevada, which gets...