category ceqa 
Clean Energy Law
MAY 17, 2019
2018 Year in Review: Public agencies prevailed in 65% of CEQA cases analyzed. Over the course of 2018, Latham & Watkins lawyers reviewed all 57 California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) cases, both published and unpublished, that came before California appellate courts. Read the full CEQA Case Report Year in Review 2018.
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. Hilltop Group, Inc.,
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Legal Planet
MAY 23, 2023
The package consists of 11 separate trailer bills, dealing with a variety of topics ranging from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to state contracting rules. The bill would eliminate the most restrictive category of species protection under California law, which has existed since 1970 and applies to 37 species.
CEQA Developments
MAY 2, 2023
On April 7, 2023, the Third District Court of Appeal filed a lengthy published opinion – the latest installment in one of the longer ongoing CEQA battles in recent memory – affirming a judgment finding an EIR for the Federal relicensing of Oroville Dam and related hydropower facilities legally adequate. It, too, rejected the CEQA claims.
CEQA Developments
AUGUST 25, 2022
CEQA Guidelines, §§ 15124, 15126, 15126.4, At its weekly conference held on August 24, 2022, the California Supreme Court acted to modify its recent majority opinion in County of Butte v. Department of Water Resources (State Water Contractors) (2022) Cal.5 5 th , Case No. This modification does not affect the judgment. (8/24/22
CEQA Developments
JANUARY 2, 2023
While rejecting many of plaintiffs’ CEQA challenges to the project’s final EIR (FEIR), the Court of Appeal found merit in claims that the EIR’s project description, analyses of impacts to historical resources and aesthetics, and alternatives analysis were deficient. Code, § 9112(c); Pub. The DEIR was circulated September 9, 2019.
CEQA Developments
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
The 2021-2022 Legislative Session was light on CEQA amendments, and once again did not produce any significant reform. While not amendments to CEQA itself, these new targets are worth noting as they will invariably appear in CEQA documents. As a ministerial approval, these projects would not be subject to CEQA review.
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