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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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4th 832 (2013) (invalidating EIR that based its significance determination partly on comparing the project’s emissions to statewide emissions). 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).

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

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FERC was preparing its own environmental impact statement under NEPA at the same time.) County of Nevada (2013) 221 Cal.App.4th DWR’s activities weren’t limited to the relicensing. It was also undertaking environmental review under CEQA by preparing an EIR for the project.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

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The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon. Oregon Wild v.

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The New Environmental Rights Amendment to the New York Constitution

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2013)(setting forth a history of the Article I, section 27, jurisprudence); see also Pa. Unlike Pennsylvania, however, New York has a “little NEPA,” the State Environmental Quality Review Act , often referred to as SEQRA. In two relatively recent cases, however, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court disavowed the Payne test. Envt’l Def.