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The Honorable Jeffrey T. Miller, U.S. District Judge in San Diego, denied in part the United States International Boundary and Water Commission’s (IBWC) motion to…
In Bohmker v. Oregon,the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held, in a divided opinion, that Oregon Senate Bill 3, which banned motorized…
On August 13, 2018, the Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) issued Administrator’s Memorandum—Floodplain Management Memorandum No. 1 in response to FEMA threats of disqualifying…
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is overseeing repairs to the Oroville Dam in coordination with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the…
California Governor Jerry Brown Jr. recently approved Senate Bill 1215 (SB 1215), to add Chapter 4.3 (commencing with § 13288) to Division 7 of the…
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and, together with FWS, the Services) have proposed revisions to one…
Affirming a trial court judgment, the Fourth District Court of Appeal invalidated a document adopted by the County of San Diego that was intended as…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a panel of scientists convened by the United Nations, issued a special report on the impact of global…
The Ninth Circuit denied the Montana Environmental Information Center’s (MEIC) petition for review of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA or agency) approval of a…
In the past few years, a lawsuit was filed by Exxon Mobil Corporation (Exxon) shareholders alleging that Exxon failed to properly disclose climate-related risks to…
