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On December 11, 2018, the Director of the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), Karla A. Nemeth, certified and approved the Final Environmental Impact Report…
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau) recently executed agreements updating the respective agencies’…
In December 2018, the California Court of Appeal for the Third District issued its decision in Georgetown Preservation Society v. County of El Dorado. The…
California’s housing crisis is perhaps the state’s best-known feature, or now at least tied with sunshine and surfing. Despite of flurry of legislation in recent…
In 2017, Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill (AB) 109, creating a research program within California’s Strategic Growth Council (SGC). AB 109 also allocated $11…
On December 13, 2018, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers Inc., the Association of Global Automakers, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed its amicusbrief to…
Environmental group brought citizen suit challenging unpermitted discharge of coal ash wastewater via groundwater seeps and thence to navigable surface waters. The U.S. District Court…
The Nevada State Engineer’s efforts to regulate groundwater withdrawals in the over-appropriated Pahrump Artesian Basin were dealt a blow recently when a state District Court…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has committed to a $449 million loan for the Maxwell Water Intertie, a component of the Sites Reservoir Project. The…
The Third District Court of Appeal has held that Proposition 218 does not preclude placing a referendum on the ballot regarding legislatively imposed fees. [Wilde…
