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By Deborah Quick Obtaining final agency action subject to judicial review can sometimes feel like the culmination of a mythic odyssey to applicants for administrative…
By Geremy Holm, Miles Krieger, Steve Anderson In July 2020, the Council on Environmental Quality adopted sweeping revisions to its longstanding 1978 regulations detailing implementation…
By Debbie Leonard On September 17, 2020, the Nevada Supreme Court issued an eagerly awaited ruling regarding the public trust doctrine in the long-running Walker…
By Christina Berglund The California Supreme Court in Protecting Our Water and Environmental Resources v. County of Stanislaus found that the County of Stanislaus (County) had…
By Travis Brooks The Fourth District Court of Appeal has provided some clarity on previously undecided issue regarding the interplay between vesting tentative and development…
By Sam Bivins and Meredith Nikkel The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) recently published a final rule updating the National Environmental Policy Act’s (NEPA) implementing…
By Paula Hernandez and Derek R. Hoffman The California Third District Court of Appeal recently upheld a determination that the State Water Resources Control Board’s…
By Austin C. Cho and Meredith Nikkel A recent ruling by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has inserted a new condition on a longstanding…
By Jonathan Clyde The Utah Supreme Court issued an amended decision in this case and clarified the distinction between impairment of and interference with water…
By Marco Antonio Ornelas and Rebecca Andrews The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana recently dismissed a federal Clean Water Act citizen…
