May 2018 California Assembly Bill 617, adopted by the state Legislature in 2017, requires stationary air sources to track and report emissions of criteria and toxic pollutants on an annual basis. The California Air Resources Board is beginning the ru…
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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…
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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 LEXIS 6988 In an unpublished decision of interest to quarry operators, California’s Fourth Appellate District held that San Diego County did not need to perform…
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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.
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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…
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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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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…
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SMARA REFORMS SIGNED INTO LAW Governor Brown just signed into law the most significant reforms to SMARA in more than 20 years. Join mining attorney Brad Johnson and lead agencies, consultants, and mine operators for a half-day seminar on the New SMAR…
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Two companion bills that together would enact the most significant reforms in more than twenty years to California’s mining law, the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (“SMARA”), are headed to the Senate and Assembly floors for a final vote. As…
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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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