Continuing her work from the Fall 2014 quarter, advanced Environmental Law Clinic student Abigail Barnes (JD ’16) argued in San Luis Obispo Court on Tuesday, March 10 for a preliminary injunction to stop the ongoing operation of a so-called “emergency” desalination plant in Cambria.

Abby and full-time winter quarter students Elizabeth Berardi (JD ’15) and Carolina de Armas (JD ’16) wrote the injunction motion and reply, in which they argued that the desalination plant was hastily built without either the environmental review required by state law or the deliberative planning needed for sound water management decisions.  Many of the other clinic’s full-time students attended the hearing and visited the plant site.