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Environmental, Energy and Climate Change Law & Regulation Reporter

December 2017

Volume 10, Number 7 December 2017

FEATURE ARTICLE

183

CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS

Governors Sign Regional Electric Vehicle Agreement Which Sets the Stage for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure188

California Details Its Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Expenditure Plan for Fiscal-Year 2017-18189

Southern California Edison’s Blueprint to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Air Pollutants191

CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE

Recent Scientific Studies on Climate Change194

PENALTIES AND SANCTIONS

Recent Investigations, Settlements, Penalties, and Sanctions197

REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS

EPA Begins Express Repeal of Clean Power Plan with Proposed

Rule199

U.S. Department of the Interior Releases Its Report of DOI Bureau Actions that ‘Potentially Burden Domestic Energy’200

California State Water Resources Control Board Adopts Order on Long-Term Management of the Salton Sea202

RECENT FEDERAL DECISIONS

D.C. Circuit Finds Sierra Club Lacks Standing to Sue EPA for Rolling Back Air Pollutant Regula-tions204

Sierra Club, et al., v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and E. Scott Pruitt, Administrator, 873 F.3d 946, (D.C. Cir. 2017).

Looming Rescission of Regulation Regarding Fracking on Federal Lands Deprived Tenth Circuit Court of Jurisdiction to Consider Appeal206

State of Wyoming v. Zinke, 871 F.3d 1133 (10th Cir. 2017).

RECENT STATE DECISIONS

California Court of Appeal Determines that EIR Prepared by SANDAG for Its 2050 Regional Transportation Plan Violated CEQA209

Cleveland National Forest Foundation v. San Diego Association of Governments, ___Cal.App.5th___, Case No. D063288 (4th Dist. Nov. 16, 2017).