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On December 2, 2016, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) issued the final Biological Opinion (2016 BiOp) providing for federal Endangered Species Act (ESA)…
A U.S. District Court in Louisiana has ruled that it is within the discretion of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to compel states…
Conservation Law Foundation (plaintiff) sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) alleging that it failed to carry out its non-discretionary duties under the federal Clean…
The Public Records Act (Government Code § 6250 et seq. (PRA)) is frequently a feature of land use practice and litigation. Accordingly, land use practitioners…
On December 23, 2016, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) released an interim update of Bulletin 118, DWR's compendium of information regarding the occurrence,…
On December 22, 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau) and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) issued a joint news release announcing the…
In December 2016, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) released draft greenhouse gas emissions regulations as a result of two things. In May 2016,…
On January 3, 2017, Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, issued a Secretarial Order (Order) instructing the U.S Department of the Interior (DOI) and its…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has considered Helping Hand Tools (Helping Hand) and the Center for Biological Diversity’s (Center) petition for review of a…
On November 22, 2016 the California Water Commission (CWC) released newly revised draft regulations designed to implement the Water Storage Investment Program (WSIP). Once adopted,…
