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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a listing determination under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) based on both near-and long-term climate change…
New Mexico has confronted numerous interstate water issues. In virtually all of the cases, New Mexico was the upstream state. On the Pecos River, New…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has confirmed that the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) prohibits the unpermitted “taking” of listed fish and wildlife species,…
The Court of Appeal for the First District held that a state law known as the Ellis Act of 1985 preempts an ordinance adopted by…
Judge Jesus G. Bernal of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California rejected allegations that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and other…
Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 2551 (AB 2551) on September 28, 2016. The bill aims to streamline the construction of local agency water storage projects.…
In September, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) jointly released a national Offshore Wind Strategy (Strategy) in order…
In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court rejected the notion that public agencies should get no deference in deciding whether to treat proposed projects…
As government agencies collect private information in increasingly large and sophisticated data caches, that data remains susceptible to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act…
The Sacramento County Superior Court has entered final judgment in Environmental Law Foundation et al. v. State Water Resources Control Board and County of Siskiyou,…
