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The U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued an audit report assessing whether the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau) had…
The Texas Supreme Court has taken steps to extend the “accommodation doctrine,” which was initially developed to resolve disputes between surface and minerals owners, to…
The California Supreme Court ruled in People v. Rinehart, ___Cal.4th___, Case No. S222620 (Cal. Aug. 22, 2016), that California state laws restricting the practice of suction…
On September 2, the California Water Commission (CWC) released revised draft regulations designed to implement the Water Storage Investment Program (WSIP). The regulations govern eligibility…
The San Francisco Superior Court has denied two petitions for writ of mandate to set aside the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure’s (OCII) certification…
The Fifth District Court of Appeal has held that the City of Modesto’s General Plan contains flexible policies that permitted the approval of a shopping…
Capping several years of litigation, on July 21, 2016, the California Supreme Court determined in Property Reserve, Inc. v. Superior Court that California’s eminent domain…
The White House’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the federal entity with responsibility for implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) issued final guidance…
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Final Rule partially imposing a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) on the…
In a second look at withdrawal of fill disposal sites by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from a federal Clean Water Act (CWA) §…
