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Dec. 1, 2011
A Run on the Water Bank
Unable to finish a key section of the State Water Project, California turned over to private interests a huge storage aquifer beneath Kern County. Now an environmentalist group is challenging the legality of the 1995 transfer.
Who is Adam Keats, and why is he so focused on Los Angeles billionaire Stewart Resnick? Attorneys representing Resnick's vast agricultural holdings in the Central Valley wish the troublesome plaintiffs lawyer would just go away.
Keats, 40, is senior counsel at the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), one of the nation's most aggressive and uncompromising environmental rights organizations. A graduate of UC Davis's law school, the Massachusetts native has a pas...
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