Wisconsin Resources Protection Council v. Flambeau Mining Company 727 F.3d 700 The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal recently held that a mining operation did not violate the Clean Water Act when it discharged pollutants without a NPDES permit, based o… Read More

Rapanos v. U.S. 547 U.S. 715 The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) jointly submitted a draft rule to clarify the limits of Clean Water Act (“CWA”)… Read More

The California Supreme Court has recently clarified language in the Mitigation Fee Act (Government Code § 66000, et. seq.), which allows developers to pay development "fees, dedications, reservations, or other exactions" under protest, while simul… Read More

Oroville v. City of Oroville (2013) __ Cal.Rptr.3d __ A California Appellate Court has confirmed that a lead agency may adopt Assembly Bill 32’s emissions reduction targets as the threshold of significance standard to determine whether a Project’… Read More

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., et al., v. County of Los Angeles, et al. 2013 DJDAR 10619 In a recent decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal ruled that pollution exceedances at mass-monitoring stations at the Los Angeles and San Gabriel… Read More

Great Northwest, Inc. v. United States Army Corps of Engineers 2010 WL 9499372 In an unpublished decision, a federal court sitting in Alaska has ruled that the Corps lacked authority under the Clean Water Act to regulate a mining operation because th… Read More

The California Legislature has passed a bill providing an automatic 24-month extension for subdivision maps approved after January 1, 2000. Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill on July 11, 2013. The bill is an “urgency” measure and therefore take… Read More

Save Panoche Valley, et al., v. San Benito County (2013) ___ Cal.Rptr.3d ___ In a decision that is sure to be favored by solar developers, California’s Sixth District Court of Appeal recently upheld San Benito County’s decision to cancel certain… Read More