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

CEQA Developments

Holding and Analysis The Third District’s opinion in Butte IV is a thoroughgoing and straightforward examination of the Counties’ CEQA claims which broke down into four categories: climate change, historical hydrological conditions, water quality and beneficial use, and changes to the SWP. County of Nevada (2013) 221 Cal.App.4th

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

Law Columbia

of Fish & Wildlife, 62 Cal.4th 4th 832 (2013) (invalidating EIR that based its significance determination partly on comparing the project’s emissions to statewide emissions). City of Oroville, 219 Cal.App.4th Transportation and Vehicle Emissions. City of Rancho Cordova, 40 Cal. 4th 412 (2007).

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

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.

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