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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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. The leases had a term running from 2009 through 2013, with a holdover provision.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

The case has its origins in the operation of the Oroville Dam on the Feather River, which is part of the large statewide plumbing system with the prosaic name of State Water Project (“SWP”). It was also undertaking environmental review under CEQA by preparing an EIR for the project. County of Nevada (2013) 221 Cal.App.4th

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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. A project’s incremental contribution may be cumulatively considerable even if it appears relatively small compared to statewide, national or global emissions.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In a 53-page published opinion filed October 8, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal mostly affirmed, but reversed in part, a judgment in a CEQA action challenging two sets of projects of the City of San Diego to underground overhead utility wires in several neighborhoods. City of San Diego (2021) Cal.App.5th. The Litigation.

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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. Ninth Circuit Reinstated Listing of Bearded Seal as Threatened Based on Climate Change Projections. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2018

This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate, a multi-school online forum run by student editors from the nation’s leading environmental law reviews. . The report breaks down these investments into four categories. million short tons [4.8 million metric tons] of carbon pollution.”. [35].

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