Berkeley Law Professor Holly Doremus, an expert on environmental and natural resources law, recently took CBS’s 60 Minutes to task for a December segment it aired about the California water crisis that was flawed by major inaccuracies and omissions. In a post on Legal Planet—a popular blog maintained by Berkeley Law and UCLA Law School faculty—Doremus faulted the news program for accepting “… a tall tale concocted by anti-regulatory interests: that protecting the Delta smelt has economically crippled California agriculture.” Citing an independent report from a University of the Pacific economist, Doremus says that the San Joaquin Valley’s economic downturn was caused by the collapse of the housing market, not water shortages.