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New, Updated Carbon Majors Dataset Holds Promise for Researchers, Litigators

Union of Concerned Scientists

For researchers, this updated dataset provides an incredible opportunity to conduct litigation relevant research and explore questions of accountability—for the impacts of climate change, for the historical costs of inaction, and for industry’s decades of disinformation and delay.

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First District Holds LA’s Water Allocations To Agricultural Lessees Were Authorized Under Existing Leases And Did Not Constitute Or Implement A Separate “Project” Subject to CEQA Review

CEQA Developments

The overlap of those two roles gave rise to the County of Mono case, in which the County sought to use CEQA litigation as leverage over the City’s water allocations to agricultural users who lease property from the City. Entitlement and litigation attorneys should accordingly both find it a useful case to review. acre feet per acre.

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Reading the Tea Leaves: Biden’s and California’s Vehicle Regs at the D.C. Circuit

Legal Planet

I’m an appellate litigator with a focus on climate and Clean Air Act cases. At argument, the parties jousted over whether the rule’s reliance on increased electrification was something novel and different “in kind,” or merely another step in an iterative regulatory process, dating back at least to EPA’s 2010 GHG standards. Q: Hi, Sean.

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Fourth District Rejects CEQA And Municipal Code Challenges To City Of Santa Cruz’s Project Approvals And EIR For Small Multifamily Housing Project

CEQA Developments

The Project, City’s Review And Approval Process, And The Litigation. The project at issue is a multifamily development on a vacant parcel of land in the City of Santa Cruz, a portion of which has slopes in the 15+ and 30+ percent categories.

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DOJ Defeats Motion to Dismiss in Precedent-Setting Criminal Wage-Fixing Case

Arnold Porter

Non-solicitation or “no-poach” agreements regarding employee recruiting first attracted widespread attention in 2010 when a number of the largest Silicon Valley technology companies entered into consent agreements with DOJ for a series of “no cold call” agreements.[[N:Press 2, 2015).]]

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Louisiana Fifth Circuit Weighs in on Proper Application of Prescription and Contra Non in NORM Litigation

The Energy Law Blog

In a case sure to be used as a sword by many defendants in the prevalent NORM (naturally occurring radioactive material) litigation in Louisiana and elsewhere, Patricia Lennie, et al. Exxon Mobil Corporation, et al., Lennie’s work at a pipe yard in Louisiana caused Mr. Lennie’s lung cancer and eventual death.

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California Adopts CEQA Guidelines Aimed at Improving Consideration of GHG Emissions and Climate Change Impacts in Environmental Reviews

Law Columbia

These amendments flesh out many of the provisions on climate change and energy that were first added to the CEQA Guidelines in 2010. The revised guidelines also add “energy” as an impact category in the environmental checklist for CEQA reviews that agencies use to format and guide their environmental reviews (Appendix G).