30 CFR § 56/57.18002 April 2018 On April 9, 2018, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) published its final Workplace Examination rule (the “Final Rule”). The Final Rule is the culmination of MSHA’s nearly two-year effort to revise…
Read More
Harrison, Temblador, Hungerford & Guernsey LLP has been recognized in a recent article by The Recorder (available here) as a leader in obtaining local cannabis land use entitlements and state licenses. The firm has applied its land use expertise…
Read More
A recent survey (available here) found that as of January 15, 2018, Harrison, Temblador, Hungerford & Guernsey client Honeydew Farms, LLC holds the most cultivation licenses in the state. Honeydew Farms, LLC, which is based in Humboldt County, is…
Read More
Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation v. County of San Diego (2017) Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 6988 In an unpublished decision of interest to quarry operators, California’s Fourth Appellate District held that San Diego County did not need to perform…
Read More
Harrison, Temblador, Hungerford & Guernsey LLP has a new address: 2801 T Street Sacramento, CA 95816 All firm phone numbers and email addresses remain the same. Please call (916) 382-4377 or email info@hthglaw.com with any questions.
Read More
Categories: Articles, CEQA, Climate, Environmental, Land Use, Marijuana, Mining, Mitigation, MSHA, NEPA, SMARA, Solar, Transportation, Vested Rights, Water
Sierra Club v. County of Sonoma (2017) Cal. App. LEXIS 375 In Sierra Club v. County of Sonoma, a California court declined consider the issuance of a grading permit to be an act subject to CEQA, despite that the ordinance gave County officials a degr…
Read More
The Brown administration introduced major cannabis legislation earlier this month in the form of a “trailer bill”. Trailer bills are typically reserved for “cleanup” legislation as part of the annual state budget process. This trailer bill in…
Read More
The federal courts rarely full stop the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s pursuit of jurisdictional manifest destiny, but the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had no qualms about doing so recently in Maxxim Rebuild Co., LLC v. Fed. Mine Safety…
Read More
In response to the Trump Administration’s promised rollbacks of federal environmental regulations, California State Senate President pro Tempore Kevin De León and Senator Henry Stern have introduced Senate Bill 49 (“SB 49”), a sweeping attempt…
Read More
In People v. Rinehart, the California Supreme Court recently upheld a moratorium on the use of suction dredge methods to extract gold from federal mining claims. Since 1961, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has issued permits for suctio…
Read More
