Yet another example of enviromental regulations run amuck. Not surpising at all that this happens in california.
I was outraged a few years ago when I first saw this. NAFTA was supposed to be an increase in pure capatalism. Now we are going to have a three member panal make decisions for us?
This sets a a very bad and dangerous precedent. And it wont be long before scores of companies began doing the same thing.
They already are. It comes under Chapter 10 (I think) of NAFTA. Companies can sue for loss of potential profits. The lawyers who stuck that in there then turned around and started showing companies how to use it to force folks to use their product or face lawsuits.