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California cannabis regulators (Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation, CalCannabis Cultivation Licensing, Office of Manufactured Cannabis Safety) have all been hard at work drafting regulations to implement the 2015 Medical Cannabis Regulation and Sa…
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Sierra Club v. County of San Benito (2017 Cal. App. LEXIS 1987) In Sierra Club v. County of San Benito, a California court upheld the county’s use of a deed restriction, rather than insisting upon a conservation easement, as a mechanism to ensure t…
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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…
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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…
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In an unpublished decision, Communities for Better Environment v. South Coast Air Quality Management District, California’s Second Appellate District upheld the decision of an air district to issue a negative declaration for a project that expanded…
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Joe and Yvette Hardesty and the Jay Schneider family were awarded more than $100 million in damages against Sacramento County in federal court on Tuesday, March 21. The litigation was one in a long line of lawsuits and administrative actions concerni…
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President Trump has directed the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works (“Army Corps”) to review the 2015 Clean Water Act Rule (“Rule”) defining “Waters of th…
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In January 2016, the United States General Accountability Office released the results of a study which analyzed how much time it takes federal agencies to approve hardrock mining operations on public land. Between 2010 and 2014, the GAO studied how m…
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On January 26, 2016, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors adopted the first comprehensive local commercial medical marijuana land use ordinance under the State Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act (“MMRSA”). The County’s “Commercia…
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