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

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of Fish & Wildlife, 62 Cal.4th 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). See, e.g., Center for Biological Diversity v. See California Building Industry Association v.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

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The Ninth Circuit found that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) had acted reasonably based on best available scientific and commercial data when it relied on projections of loss of sea ice through the end of the century as the basis for its listing decision. Harvard Climate Justice Coalition v. 15-P-905 (Mass. United States v.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) did not sufficiently explain why it reversed a previous determination that the Pacific walrus qualified for listing as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Forest Service took a hard look at the project’s probable environmental consequences. May 19, 2021).

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

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US Fish and Wildlife Service reverses Endangered Species Act rules. Appeals court rules that US Fish and Wildlife Service improperly denied protections for Pacific walruses. Interior: The Biden administration suspended oil and gas leasing in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Executive Branch.

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