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Fourth District Belatedly Publishes CEQA Opinion Upholding City of Newport Beach’s Approval of Multifamily-Housing Development Pursuant To Addendum To 2006 EIR For Larger Mixed-Use Development

CEQA Developments

Given that the City is fairly built out, there is a dearth of available sites on which to construct multifamily housing, and the City had identified the Center as a possible site for multifamily residential development circa 2006. Bay Area Air Quality Management District (2015) 62 Cal.4th

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Back to the Future: Waters of United States Reverts to Pre-2015 Definition

Environment Next

The 2020 rulemaking replaced a 2015 rule defining “waters of the United States” more broadly under the Clean Water Act. The court left open for further briefing and argument whether the 2019 regulatory action repealing the 2015 rule is valid. Supreme Court weighed in in 2006. 715 (2006). In 2015, the U.S.

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California’s Climate Leadership: A Timeline

Legal Planet

2006 AB 32. 2015 SB350. California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). AB 1493 (Pavley Act). Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles. Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions. 2016 SB 32. 2018 SB100.

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As Soon as Possible

Real Climate

2015 ; Connolly et al, 2021 ). And also, let’s be clear, this mysteriously justified temperature series has been created explicitly to demonstrate a connection to the HS93 solar reconstruction – that was the case in the Soon et al (2015) paper, the Connolloy et al (2021) paper and now in this new Soon et al paper.

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US survey reveals harassment faced by early-career astronomers

Physics World

It initially polled male and female students in astronomy graduate courses during the 2006/07 college year and then followed up with the same individuals in 2012/13 and 2015/16, by which time the students had entered the workplace.

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What do U.S. states do at a COP, anyway?

Legal Planet

At one COP, I found myself walking alongside a group of party delegates speaking a language I didn’t understand and soon realized that I did recognize one phrase they kept repeating: “AB 32” That is, of course, the name of the law, passed in 2006, that set California’s first economy-wide GHG reduction mandate.

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Alex Pourbaix: The Big Oil Spindoctor

Enviromental Defense

President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry. million in 2015.