The First District Court of Appeal recently held that the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) does not prevent responsible agencies from imposing mitigation requirements that are more stringent than those identified in a certified Envir… Read More

The Sacramento County Superior Court recently invalidated state regulations that were designed to create new permitting requirements for dredge and fill activities in wetlands that lost federal protections under the Clean Water Act following United S… Read More

On January 14, 2021, the United States Department of Labor published a final rule in the Federal Register that increases the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s (“MSHA”) civil monetary penalties. As is required every year, the civil penalti… Read More

On July 27, 2020, the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division announced that the federal government will not, as a general policy, seek civil penalties in Clean Water Act (… Read More

Redondo Beach Waterfront, LLC v. City of Redondo Beach 2020 Cal. App. LEXIS 634 July 2020 California’s Second Appellate District has upheld statutorily conferred vested development rights from challenge by a later approved citizens’ initiative. T… Read More

California’s State Water Resources Control Board continues to advance its development of general waste discharge requirements (“WDRs”) for wineries. On July 3, 2020, the board gave notice of a July 22, 2020 online public workshop and scheduled… Read More

June 2020 In a continuing response to COVID-19, on June 29, 2020, the three California cannabis agencies (the Bureau of Cannabis Control, California Department of Food and Agriculture CalCannabis, and the California Department of Public Health Manufa… Read More

May 2020 On April 2, 2020, the Court of Appeal affirmed that CEQA’s accelerated statute of limitations on court challenges apply, regardless of whether the agency lacked authority to approve the project or make the CEQA determination in the first i… Read More