Nevada’s interim Legislative Committee for the Review and Oversight of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) and the Marlette Lake Water System meets in Carson City on January 23 at a moment when funding is scarce, policy decisions carry outsized consequences, and TRPA’s regulatory capture has allowed private interests and their lobbyists to shape the basin’s priorities more than the public they’re supposed to serve.  Two-thirds of Lake Tahoe, one of the deepest lakes in the world, lies within California’s borders, yet when it comes to oversight of the lake and the bi-state TRPA, Nevada consistently punches above its weight.
–Written by Nevada Current columnist Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos.