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Within the context of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) September 2009 decision to revise its decades-old regulations limiting pollution by steam-electric power plants—EPA obtained…
ExxonMobil (Exxon), the world’s largest oil company, conducted an historic shareholders’ vote at the company’s annual meeting on May 31, 2017. With 62 percent of…
Perhaps the longest lingering litigation threat to the California Legislature’s adoption of and the California Air Resources Board (CARB)’s implementation of the precedent-setting Global Warming…
On April 7, 2017, the Idaho Conservation League (ICL) lodged a complaint with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the Idaho State Department…
HB 84 This bill was designed to clarify the effect of filing a series of non-use applications on a water right. The filing of non-use…
On March 16, 2017, the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) issued a Notice of Preparation (NOP) regarding its development of a Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR)…
On March 8, 2017, the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) released for public comment a draft emergency regulation that would impose new fees on…
In a lengthy opinion certified for publication on March 15, 2017, the Court of Appeal for the Fourth District affirmed a lower court’s holding denying…
In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court held that the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires an EIR for a project located within a…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a petition for review brought by plaintiffs tribal conservation organizations and environmental interest groups challenging the Federal Implementation…
