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CEQA Remedies Go Both Ways: Fourth District Reverses Judgment Upholding San Diego County Board’s Decision Granting Project Opponents’ Administrative Appeal, Holds Board Erred In Finding CEQA Guidelines Section 15183 Statutory Exemption Inapplicable And Ordering EIR Prepared for Exempt Industrial Project

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Located in a steep valley directly west of Interstate 15, the Project site is also located adjacent to parcels of land zoned “semi-rural residential” and in proximity to a number of residential communities, which resulted in strong public opposition to the Project ultimately leading to litigation. City of Dublin (2013) 214 Cal.App.4th

Recycling

Recycling Law Politics 2024

Climate Change Jurisdiction: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Kicks Climate Change Case Back to State Court

The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2020

1331 because the cities’ claims were “necessarily governed by federal common law.” Do State Nuisance Claims Related to Climate Change Arise Under Federal Law? the district court found that the Plaintiffs’ claims supported federal question jurisdiction because those state-law claims were “necessarily governed by federal common law.”

Climate Change

Climate Change Fossil Fuels Clean Air Act Law

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First District Holds LA’s Water Allocations To Agricultural Lessees Were Authorized Under Existing Leases And Did Not Constitute Or Implement A Separate “Project” Subject to CEQA Review

CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

The case provides guidance to practitioners on when and how CEQA applies to public contracts, and also regarding the appropriate contents of the administrative record in CEQA litigation challenging staff level actions implementing existing leases. The leases had a term running from 2009 through 2013, with a holdover provision.

2010

2010 2018 2009 Law

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

CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

But instead of addressing the substance of those claims as the trial court had done, it held that the application of CEQA to the relicensing of a dam under FERC’s aegis was preempted by federal law pursuant to the Federal Power Act (“FPA,” 16 U.S.C. County of Nevada (2013) 221 Cal.App.4th 791a et seq.).

Climate Change

Climate Change 2008 2017 Law

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

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

Climate Change

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

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. The court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S. Sierra Club v.

2016

2016 Climate Change Fossil Fuels Greenhouse

Fourth District Addresses Numerous Significant CEQA Issues In Action Challenging City of San Diego’s Utility Undergrounding Projects

CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Council would thereafter create an “Underground Utility District” for the selected blocks to be completed with the year’s funding; residents/owners within the district would be mailed a notice of public hearing and a map so they could comment prior to Council’s approval of creation of the district. City of San Jose (2013) 220 Cal.App.4th

Law

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Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children?

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

His parents, Gary and Shari Peters, documented six more kids in Aurora diagnosed with cancer from 2005 to 2013. Even with that record of risk nitrate pollution is in a category to itself. A decade later, Jacob Peters’s death turns out to be much more than a dreadful heartbreak for a small town, farm country family.

2016

2016 Regulations 2011 Environmental Protection

The New Environmental Rights Amendment to the New York Constitution

E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

What if it is from a manmade source in New York, operating lawfully under New York law? And other schemes, such as the New York State hazardous waste cleanup laws, solid waste laws, and Brownfield Cleanup Program, surely are aimed at promoting a “healthful” environment. “It Envt’l Def. Commonwealth , 161 A.3d 3d 911 (Pa.

Clean Air Act

Clean Air Act Clean Water Act Government Law

Reading the Tea Leaves: Biden’s and California’s Vehicle Regs at the D.C. Circuit

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Previously, I taught law school, practiced solo, worked in the Appellate Section of the Justice Department’s Environmental and Natural Resources Division – and way back, I, like you, had the great honor of clerking for Justice Stevens. Maybe we could start by having you say a bit about yourself and your role in the Texas case.

Clean Air Act

Clean Air Act Regulations Nitrogen Oxides Technology

The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

After President Biden took office, EPA undertook a review of the rules pursuant to Executive Order 13990 on “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.”[[N:86 In March, EPA published a notice inviting public comment on all five final PBT rules.[[N: ”[[N:86 Fed.

2021

2021 2020 Regulations Law

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sector: A Cap-and-Invest Approach

Vermont Law

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. The report also notes that “RGGI investments in 2015 are estimated to return $2.31

Greenhouse

Greenhouse 2015 2017 Regulations

The Chemical Compound—May 2021

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

EPA to Move 390 Substances to Public Portion of TSCA Inventory. Law §§ 35-0105, 37-0115.]]. 1334 ), which has been referred to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.[[N:A Environmental Groups Seek EPA Actions on Phosphogypsum and Process Wastewater from Phosphoric Acid Production.

2021

2021 Regulations 2020 Toxic Substances Control Act

Climate Change Jurisdiction: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Kicks Climate Change Case Back to State Court

Trending Sources

First District Holds LA’s Water Allocations To Agricultural Lessees Were Authorized Under Existing Leases And Did Not Constitute Or Implement A Separate “Project” Subject to CEQA Review

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

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

Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Fourth District Addresses Numerous Significant CEQA Issues In Action Challenging City of San Diego’s Utility Undergrounding Projects

Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children?

The New Environmental Rights Amendment to the New York Constitution

Reading the Tea Leaves: Biden’s and California’s Vehicle Regs at the D.C. Circuit

The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sector: A Cap-and-Invest Approach

The Chemical Compound—May 2021

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