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. The Court Of Appeal’s Opinion.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Residents have had to make their own arrangements for clean drinking water since that time because the affected areas are outside the 2,500 foot zone of presumption protected in state law. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations. It also offers a review of trends in research findings.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

Supreme Court to hear Clean Water Act case. the Supreme Court granted certiorari when it will decide the appropriate definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) in the Clean Water Act (CWA). In the case, the Court will hear, Sackett v. The Supreme Court may not issue its ruling until 2023.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Constitution, the legislature adopts the laws under which state agencies operate, but responsibility for implementing those laws rests with executive branch agencies like DEQ. This session, the legislature amended the animal waste system permitting law, G.S. Under the N.C. See: House Bill 600, Sec. 9) STORMWATER. Amends G.S.

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Smith Enviorment

AUGUST 1, 2018

Historically, laws creating commissions gave the Governor power to appoint all or a majority of the members. The governor argued the laws giving the legislature power to select a majority of commissioners violated the N.C. Supreme Court ruled in the governor’s favor. Supreme Court decision, Cooper v.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Appeals court rules that US Fish and Wildlife Service improperly denied protections for Pacific walruses. The agenda notes DOE is preparing a major rulemaking to reduce the use of fossil fuels in federal buildings — an implementation of a 2007 law. Executive Branch. US Fish and Wildlife Service reverses Endangered Species Act rules.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. The court therefore found that the stay was unauthorized and vacated it. and non-U.S.

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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 369 (2015) ; Ballona Wetlands Land Trust v. GHG Emissions Analysis. See, e.g., Center for Biological Diversity v. of Fish & Wildlife, 62 Cal.4th

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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. West Virginia Federal Court Ordered EPA to Evaluate Clean Air Act’s Impacts on Coal Industry. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. Pritzker , Nos. opinion Oct.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

These have resulted in Supreme Court rulings in 1915 and the Comics Code Authority. There isn’t a boy or a young lad tried at our Courts of Justice whose position there is not more or less due the effect of unwholesome literature upon his mind,” opined the recorder for the City of London in 1885.’

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EPA unveiled a proposed rule that would take the Navigable Waters Protection Rule off the books and reinstate long-standing regulations defining which streams and wetlands are subject to federal protection, a category known as “Waters of the U.S.,” Court of Appeals that found wetlands on their property to be jurisdictional.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

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 dispensed with the cities’ three primary arguments for remanding the cases. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.

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