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CEQA Developments
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
We saw a continued focus on incentivizing affordable and infill developments on the condition that the project pay prevailing wages (AB 2011), reducing barriers for specified sustainable transit projects (SB 922), and amendments akin to “pet project exemptions” that are targeted to solving a narrower set of concerns (SB 118 and SB 886).
CEQA Developments
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
1) held the San Diego County Board of Supervisors committed a prejudicial abuse of discretion in granting project opponents’ appeals of the Planning Commission’s decision upholding County’s use of the CEQA Guidelines section 15183 exemption for a construction debris and inert materials recycling facility project. 2024) Cal.App.5th.
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PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Peter Petokas , from Lycoming College Clean Water Institute , found habitats of the rare Eastern Hellbender salamander are being significantly impacted by sediment plumes from natural gas pipeline crossing and shale gas drilling-related water withdrawal construction projects. Read more here. Read more here.
Enviromental Defense
AUGUST 23, 2021
You can find the complete list of federal supports announced in 2020 in the report, but here are the major categories we were able to track. Notably, the agency loaned up to $500 million for the Coastal GasLink Pipeline, a project opposed by hereditary leaders from all five clans of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. Cleaning up is the law.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 21, 2022
On September 22, 2022, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Climate School co-hosted a Climate Week NYC webinar on “Siting Renewables in New York: Ambitious Climate Goals, a New Siting Process, and How It Is Going.” Law §§ 66-p(2)(a), (b). Law § 75-0107(1)(b). Law § 94-c(1). 94-c(5)(f).
CEQA Developments
JANUARY 2, 2023
In a published opinion filed December 6, 2022, the Third District Court of Appeal reversed in part and affirmed in part the trial court’s judgment denying writ petitions in consolidated actions challenging the EIR for a major state government project affecting the Historic State Capitol Building and Annex in Sacramento. Save Our Capitol!
CEQA Developments
AUGUST 2, 2022
The case holds that the City’s water allocations to the City’s agricultural lessees were authorized under its existing 2010 leases and thus did not constitute a new project subject to CEQA review before they could be lawfully implemented. acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16).
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