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Senate Bill 97
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Real Estate, Land Use & Environmental Law Blog
A Brief Overview of the Recent Amendments to CEQA Guidelines
By Brenna Moorhead On December 29, 2009, the California Natural Resources Agency ("Resources Agency") adopted amendments to the guidelines implementing the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA"). The amendments were filed…
Renewable + Law
Evaluating Climate Change Impacts under the California Environmental Quality Act: Center for Biological Diversity v. Town of Yucca Valley
Query this: the California legislature has passed the California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) and Senate Bill 97, making it clear that the impact of a project’s greenhouse gas…
Land Use Law Blog
OPR Finalizes Proposed CEQA Guidelines and Transmits Them to Resources Agency
By Leslie Z. Walker Two months ahead of the deadline mandated by SB 97 (Chapter 185, Statutes 2007; Public Resources Code section 21083.05), the Governor's Office of Planning and Research…
Land Use Law Blog
No Surprises in Draft CEQA Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Leslie Z. Walker Six months after releasing its Technical Advisory CEQA and Climate Change: Addressing Climate Change Through California Environmental Quality Act Review (see OPR on CEQA and Climate…
Land Use Law Blog
ARB Guidance on CEQA Thresholds: Not Every Bit Counts, and CEQA Exemptions Apply
By Leslie Z. Walker For the two years following passage of Assembly Bill 32 (Chapter 488, Statutes 2006), practitioners have wrestled with establishing the level at which a project's contribution…
Land Use Law Blog
OPR on CEQA and Climate Change: Local Agencies Continue to Bear the Heat
By Leslie Z. Walker CEQA practitioners have spent the last year anxiously anticipating the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) advice to local agencies on the evaluation of greenhouse…
Land Use Law Blog
Trial Court Rules CEQA Did Not Require Global Warming Analysis
By Leslie Z. Walker On January 29, 2008, Judge Thomas Cahraman of the Riverside Superior Court ruled that CEQA did not require the Banning City Council to consider the Global…