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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
AUGUST 2, 2022
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.
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CEQA Developments
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Factual and Procedural Background The General Plan Update and Certified Program EIR The County designated the project property for industrial use in its 2011 General Plan Update (GPU), the environmental impacts of which were reviewed under CEQA pursuant to a certified program environmental impact report (PEIR).
CEQA Developments
JANUARY 2, 2023
The Court first held, as a matter of law exercising de novo review, that the EIR failed to contain the “accurate, stable, and finite project description” required by CEQA and necessary for an intelligent evaluation of a project’s impacts. City of Rocklin (2011) 197 Cal.App.4th The Court of Appeal’s Opinion.
Arnold Porter
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
News - Best Lawyers has named Arnold & Porter as a "Law Firm of the Year" in the "Litigation - Environmental" category. The firm also received 43 national rankings and 102 metropolitan rankings (Chicago, DC, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco) in the "Best Law Firms" report. Biotechnology Law.
Law Columbia
JANUARY 10, 2019
The CEQA Guidelines have been revised to clarify the appropriate methodology for measuring and assessing the significance of GHG emissions, consistent with recent case law. The revisions are also aimed at making it easier for agencies to comply with CEQA, one goal being to avoid litigation after reviews are completed. 4th 455 (2d.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. United States v.
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