April 06, 2005
4/6 - Thirty Years of Bogusness? California Coastal Commission is challenged in Supreme Court
Thirty years of doing their best to protect California's inundated coastline produces lots of enemies, most of whom are laying in wait as the California Supreme Court gets ready to hear a challenge to the entire legitimacy of the California Coastal Commission. Personally, I put my stock in California's hippest environmental lawyer who says in the San Diego Tribune:
"The appointment process and that balance is at the heart of the Commission's integrity and their ability to withstand the intense lobbying for coastal development," said Mark Massara, the Sierra Club's director of coastal programs. "We are unwilling to give any one person in state government the ability to control and manipulate the process – The stakes are too high."
CCC: California's Coolest Counsellor, Mark Massara of Sierra Club