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Rare Eastern Hellbender Habitat In Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County Harmed By Sediment Plumes From Pipeline Crossings, Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal Construction Projects

PA Environment Daily

Natural gas companies must also sign submerged land lease agreements with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for using stream and river beds between the high water marks of those bodies of water for pipeline crossings and water withdrawal points because the submerged land is owned by the Commonwealth.

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CEQA Remedies Go Both Ways:  Fourth District Reverses Judgment Upholding San Diego County Board’s Decision Granting Project Opponents’ Administrative Appeal, Holds Board Erred In Finding CEQA Guidelines Section 15183 Statutory Exemption Inapplicable And Ordering EIR Prepared for Exempt Industrial Project

CEQA Developments

The GPU designation of the 140-acre Project site (18 acres of which would be used by the recycling facility and 44 acres of which would be preserved as habitat by a conservation easement) is “High Impact Industrial” with a zoning classification of “General Impact Industrial,” which allows recycling facilities such as the NCER Project.

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That Dam Case (Again):  Third District Upholds Oroville Hydropower Facilities Relicensing EIR Against Numerous CEQA Challenges

CEQA Developments

Butte County, Plumas County and Plumas County Flood Control and Water Conservation District (“Counties”) then filed two lawsuits (later consolidated) against the project. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. 791a et seq.). That decision is discussed in this post.)

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. United States , No.

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Fourth District Addresses Numerous Significant CEQA Issues In Action Challenging City of San Diego’s Utility Undergrounding Projects

CEQA Developments

City of Lodi (2006) 144 Cal.App.4th Where an agency adopts an administrative appeal process, the common law exhaustion rule applies in CEQA cases and the remedy’s scope is defined by the specific jurisdiction’s relevant and available local procedures. City and County of San Francisco (2021) 60 Cal.App.5th 4th 1209, 1223.)

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Trump Administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule and Its Impact on Ohio

Ohio Environmental Law

Following the 2006 decision by the U.S. The NWPR covers four categories of waters: The territorial seas and traditional navigable waters (i.e., Does Ohio law protect wetlands and waters that are not federally protected? Ohio law also protects categories of waters that are not protected under the NWPR. groundwater).

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

million for conserving pollinators, freshwater mussels, desert fish and Hawaiian Islands plants. billion to support Indigenous conservation of forests. But, many legal experts say the legal tug of war over the foundational water law is likely to continue until the Supreme Court weighs in again. Lawmakers also allocate $9.7

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