Farmland Protection Alliance v. County of Yolo Save the Field v. Del Mar Union School District Two recent appellate decisions tackle the question of how a CEQA lead agency may construct an EIR following a successful challenge to a prior negative decl…
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Tiburon Open Space Committee v. County of Marin (2022) 78 Cal.App.5th 700 In a contentious development case, the first appellate district recently held that a lead agency properly limited the scope of its CEQA review to recognize prior judgments whic…
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Administrative Civil Liability Complaint No. R4-2022-0218 In early July 2022, the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board proposed to levy a historically large civil penalty – more than $15 million – on the owners and operators of a beau…
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Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 33 F.4th 1202 (9th Cir. 2022) A recent Ninth Circuit ruling highlights the Mining Law of 1872’s shortcomings to accommodate the extraordinarily large-scale operations that often ch…
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We Advocate, etc. v. County of Siskiyou 2022 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 2349 CEQA requires an EIR to be recirculated for public review if “significant new information” is added between the time that a draft EIR is released to the public and the time…
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Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power v. County of Inyo 2021 Cal. App. LEXIS 676 Section 15301 of CEQA’s Guidelines categorically exempts, among other things, ongoing operations at “existing facilities.” A new decision from the Fifth Appellate…
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