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Save the Capitol, Save the Trees v. Dept. of General Services
Trial court erred by discharging preemptory writ of mandate without first determining whether defendant remedied CEQA compliance issues previously identified by the Court of Appeal. 		Environmental Law, Civil Procedure 3DCA May 16, 2024
People v. Plains All American Pipeline, LP
Trial court erroneously denied restitution for victims of environmental crime based on their mediated civil settlements and class action lawsuits. 		Remedies, Environmental Law 2DCA/6 May 6, 2024
Flathead-Lolo-Bitterroot v. State of Montana
Preliminary injunction was appropriate in Endangered Species Act lawsuit because claims raised a serious question on the merits and finding regarding threat of imminent harm was not wholly unsupported. 		Environmental Law 9th Apr. 24, 2024
Amended Opinion: Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project v. Jeffries
Because the U.S. Forest Service retained control and considered several alternatives, its project replacing diseased trees with disease-resistant ones did not violate the National Environmental Policy Act. 		Environmental Law 9th Apr. 17, 2024
Vichy Springs Resort, Inc. v. City of Ukiah
For California Environmental Quality Act purposes, construction on land leased from the city may have been "discretionary" where the City was under no obligation to allow the construction. 		Environmental Law 1DCA/4 Apr. 2, 2024
V Lions Farming, LLC v. County of Kern
Agricultural conservation easements (ACEs) qualify as compensatory mitigation for the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act. 		Environmental Law 5DCA Mar. 11, 2024
Safety-Kleen of California, Inc. v. Dept. of Toxic Substances Control
Department of Toxic Substances Control could find a Class I hazardous waste violation without finding the waste represented a significant threat to human health or the environment. 		Environmental Law 1DCA/3 Mar. 6, 2024
Hilltop Group, Inc. v. County of San Diego
Project was exempt from environmental impact report requirements where there was not substantial evidence supporting a finding that uniform policies and procedures would not mitigate the project's potential environmental effects. 		Environmental Law 4DCA/1 Feb. 20, 2024
Natural Resources Defense Council v. City of Los Angeles
Trial court's broad discretion to fashion equitable remedies for California Environmental Quality Act violations necessitated remand where it fashioned a remedy under the mistaken belief its discretion was limited. 		Environmental Law 4DCA/1 Jan. 23, 2024
Guerrero v. City of Los Angeles
Trial court erred in determining project's approval date that would bar California Environmental Quality Act claim due to statute of limitations. 		Environmental Law 2DCA/5 Jan. 19, 2024
Amended Opinion: California Restaurant Association v. City of Berkeley
Despite not directly regulating natural gas appliances, ordinance prohibiting installing natural gas infrastructure in new buildings was expressly preempted as regulation on the quantity of gas consumed by covered appliances. 		Environmental Law 9th Jan. 3, 2024
Migrant Clinicians Network v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA's amended registrations of pesticide failed to comply with the Endangered Species Act and parts of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. 		Environmental Law 9th Dec. 14, 2023
Earth Island Institute v. United States Forest Service
U.S. Forest Service's actions involved in approving environmental project to address fires, infestations, and infections, comported with all applicable regulations and statutes. 		Environmental Law 9th Dec. 8, 2023
Center for Biological Diversity v. Haaland
Agency analysis was arbitrary and capricious where it claimed that a conversation easement preventing agricultural use would save water, despite no use of the land for agriculture in ten years. 		Environmental Law 9th Dec. 5, 2023
Cottonwood Environmental Law Center v. Edwards
Environmental group could not advance a direct-discharge theory of liability against sewage treatment center because its underdrain pipe did not transfer pollutants between meaningfully distinct water bodies 		Environmental Law 9th Nov. 22, 2023
Idaho Conservation League v. Poe
Because defendant's suction dredge mining activity was not a simple transfer of water, it required a Clean Water Act permit. 		Environmental Law 9th Nov. 21, 2023
California Construction & Industrial Materials Assn. v. County of Ventura
County was not required to submit a Surface Mining and Reclamation Act statement of reasons for its ordinance creating wildlife animal movement corridors. 		Environmental Law 2DCA/6 Nov. 14, 2023
Modification: Yerba Buena Neighborhood v. Regents of the University of California
Pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21099, University of California Regent's Environmental Impact Report for San Francisco campus project need not include an aesthetics analysis. 		Environmental Law 1DCA/3 Oct. 23, 2023
Historic Architecture Alliance v. City of Laguna Beach
Under California Environmental Quality Act, when historical resource exemption is at issue, project's compliance with the Secretary of Interior's Standards for Historic Properties is reviewed for substantial evidence. 		Environmental Law 4DCA/3 Oct. 10, 2023
Marina Coast Water Dist. v. County of Monterey
Water company's desalination project did not require further additional environmental review despite additional conditions adopted thereafter. 		Environmental Law 6DCA Oct. 6, 2023
Oroville Dam Cases
Department of Water Resources was not a "person" under the Fish and Game Code when it came to releasing material deleterious to wildlife into Lake Oroville. 		Environmental Law 3DCA Oct. 6, 2023
Yerba Buena Neighborhood v. Regents of the University of California
Pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21099, University of California Regent's Environmental Impact Report for San Francisco campus project need not include an aesthetics analysis. 		Environmental Law 1DCA/3 Sep. 22, 2023
Earth Island Institute v. Muldoon
Plaintiff could not demonstrate likelihood of success on the merits because challenged agency action was an identified categorical exclusion to environmental impact reporting requirements. 		Environmental Law 9th Sep. 13, 2023
Modification: Santa Rita Union School District v. City of Salinas
City was not required to include school project alternatives stemming from a potential lack of funding in its environmental impact report. 		Environmental Law 6DCA Sep. 11, 2023
Tsakopoulos Investments, LLC v. County of Sacramento
Lead agency's methodology for estimating project's greenhouse gas emissions differed from methodologies previously rejected by the California Supreme Court for lack of substantial evidence. 		Environmental Law 3DCA Sep. 8, 2023
Solar Energy Industries Assoc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission violated National Environmental Policy Act by failing to prepare, at minimum, an environmental assessment regarding non-utility-owned energy producer orders. 		Environmental Law 9th Sep. 6, 2023
Coastal Protection Alliance v. Airbnb
The increased residency of a property caused by an Airbnb short-term rental does not change a residential property into a "development" under the Coastal Act. 		Environmental Law 2DCA/3 Sep. 6, 2023
Center for Biological Diversity v. USFS
United States Forest Service was not liable as a contributor for contamination under Resource Conservation and Recovery Act since it played merely a passive role in disposal of hazardous lead ammunition. 		Environmental Law 9th Sep. 5, 2023
Anderson v. County of Santa Barbara
Courts may not use California Environmental Quality Act to enjoin county Road Commissioner from executing its legal, public duty of enforcing encroachment laws. 		Environmental Law 2DCA/6 Aug. 17, 2023
Santa Rita Union School District v. City of Salinas
City was not required to include school project alternatives stemming from a potential lack of funding in its environmental impact report. 		Environmental Law 6DCA Aug. 14, 2023
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