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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit determined it is improper for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use its general rulemaking…
The Third District Court of Appeal has ruled that the public trust doctrine imposes a duty on the state and its political subdivisions to consider…
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) settled a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) regarding certain…
The Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed a Superior Court ruling and held that approval of a voter-sponsored development agreement was an invalid exercise of…
In a case dealing with a petition filed by a city in connection with a referendum challenging a zoning ordinance, the California Supreme Court summed…
On August 31, 2018, California’s legislature passed Senate Bill 901, which includes a bundle of measures focused primarily on wildfire prevention and emergency response. Its…
On August 27, 2018, the California Natural Resources Agency published a 132-page report entitled “California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment” (Climate Change Assessment). The Climate…
Deference to agency decisions under the abuse of discretion test has its limits, as illustrated by this Clean Water Act case in which the U.S.…
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has given the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) deadlines by which it must act on…
The voice of the voters from Proposition 1 in 2014 was heard loud and clear when, on July 24, 2018, the California Water Commission (CWC)…
