FEATURE ARTICLE
Mitigating Climate Change Impacts: CEQA’s Existing Rules Apply—Don’t They? by Christopher Calfee, Best Best 31
CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS
National Research Council Study Finds that Greenhouse Gas Emissions Have Caused Ocean Acidification37
Energy Smart Home Builders Announce Plans for LEED Certified Residential Subdivision39
LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS
Six West Coast Senators Propose Ban on Pacific Offshore Oil Drilling40
New Bill Would Bar Climate Change Analysis from NEPA Reviews41
State Opposition Grows to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions43
CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE
Recent Scientific Studies of Climate Change45
REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS
U.S. Department of the Interior Approves Offshore Wind Project in Nantucket Sound49
EPA to Release ‘Best Available Control Technology’ Criteria for Greenhouse Gases51
California Public Utilities Commission Stays Rules for Transferable Renewable Energy Credits53
Guidance from the California Department of Conservation on Siting Solar Farms on Agricultural Land under Williamson Act Contract55
RECENT STATE DECISIONS
State Court Grants Injunction Blocking New Mexico Environmental Board from Considering Regulations to Cap GHG Emissions58
Leavell v. New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board, Case No. CV2010-50 (5th Dist. April 2010).
