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  • Reforming CEQA Part 5
  • BACA makes the ballot
  • Reforming CEQA Part 4

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legal-planet.org /2 weeks ago

Reforming CEQA Part 5

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts on reforming the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).  The first post, discussing different paradigms for CEQA, is here.  The se...

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legal-planet.org /1 month ago

BACA makes the ballot

It looks like the California Chamber of Commerce has enough signatures to put on the November ballot their initiative that would drastically change the California Environmental Qua...

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legal-planet.org /2 weeks ago

Reforming CEQA Part 4

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts on reforming the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).  The first post, discussing different paradigms for CEQA, is here.  The s...

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legal-planet.org /2 weeks ago

Reforming CEQA Part 6

This is the sixth in a series of blog posts on reforming the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).  The first post, discussing different paradigms for CEQA, is here.  The se...

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legal-planet.org /2 weeks ago

Reforming CEQA Part 3

This is the third in a series of blog posts on reforming the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).  The first post, discussing different paradigms for CEQA, is here.  The se...

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legal-planet.org /2 weeks ago

Is BACA Constitutional?

The California Chamber of Commerce initiative to rewrite the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) has strict limits on judicial review for challenges to agency decisions for...

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legal-planet.org /2 weeks ago

Reforming CEQA Part 1

The qualification for the November ballot of the California Chamber of Commerce ballot initiative rewriting CEQA does create an opportunity, if the legislature is so inclined, to s...

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latimes.com /1 day ago

Union invokes California's landmark environmental law to challenge Newsom's return-to-office mandate

A union representing California legal workers employed by the state invoked CEQA, the state's landmark yet oft-criticized environmental law to challenge a return-to-office mandate.

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legal-planet.org /2 weeks ago

Reforming CEQA, part 2

This is the second in a series of six blog posts on reforming the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).  The first post, discussing different paradigms for CEQA, is here. Wh...

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jdsupra.com /1 month ago

California Supreme Court Reviews CEQA Exemption Scope in Sunflower Alliance Case

On April 6, 2026, the California Supreme Court heard oral argument in Sunflower Alliance v. California Department of Conservation (Case No. S287414). The case addresses two key Cal...

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reason.com /3 weeks ago

The People vs. CEQA

An initiative that would streamline California's development-killing environmental review law appears to be headed to the ballot.

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natlawreview.com /1 week ago

California Air Resources Board Advances CCUS Program with Draft Concepts for Potential Regulations

On May 7, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced “Concepts for Potential Regulations for Establishing the Carbon Capture, Removals, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Pro...

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housingwire.com /1 week ago

Fault lines surface as projects tap California’s CEQA exemption law

Last July, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a landmark law shielding apartment and residential projects from lengthy environmental review processes to boost the state’s housing...

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jdsupra.com /2 weeks ago

California Environmental Law & Policy Update 5.15.26

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday proposed allowing data centers, power plants, and other industrial facilities to begin certain construction work before obt...

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legal-planet.org /1 month ago

California Climate Leadership

California has been a leader in climate change action for decades.  And, that leadership has made an impact.  A few examples:  AB 32 (2006) was one of the first comprehensive clima...

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natlawreview.com /1 week ago

The Importance of Being Earnest in Tribal Cultural Resource Consultation

Lead agencies face increasing pressure to consult with Native American tribes before issuing discretionary approvals for development projects under the California Environmental Qua...

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natlawreview.com /2 weeks ago

CEQ Issues Revised Guidance on Categorical Exclusions

On April 9, 2026, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued updated guidance for federal agencies on establishing and applying categorical exclusions (CEs), the most common...

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legal-planet.org /1 month ago

$75k and a Dead Bird

Last week, the California Earthquake Authority (“CEA”) released a major new report titled Enhancing California’s Resiliency to Natural Catastrophes (the “Report”). The legislativel...

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natlawreview.com /3 weeks ago

California SB 54 Regulations Finalized—Action Required

Extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws shift the cost and responsibility of managing packaging waste to the companies that put packaging into the marketplace. California’s SB ...

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natlawreview.com /2 weeks ago

NY DEC Finalizes SEQRA Regulations to Implement Environmental Justice Siting Law

On April 28, 2026, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) filed a Notice of Adoption to amend 6 NYCRR Part 617, DEC’s State Environmental Quality Review...

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jdsupra.com /1 month ago

Fifteen Years in the Making: First District Holds Res Judicata Bars Renewed CEQA Challenge to Richardson Grove Highway P...

In Bair v. California Department of Transportation, ___ Cal. App. 5th ___, 2026 WL 835777 (Mar. 26, 2026), the First District Court of Appeal held that a losing party in writ of ma...

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natlawreview.com /1 day ago

Action Due: June 1 Deadline for California Producers Is Fast Approaching

On May 1, 2026, the Office of Administrative Law approved and filed regulations accompanying California’s Senate Bill 54 (SB 54). The regulations were effective as of the May 1 fil...

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natlawreview.com /1 month ago

CARB Seeks Comment on Latest GHG Reporting Program Proposals Following Public Workshop

With the initial August 10, 2026, reporting deadline approaching, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) hosted its fourth public workshop on March 23, 2026, and focused on impl...

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jdsupra.com /3 weeks ago

California Publishes Long-Awaited Regulations for SB 54

On May 1, 2026, California approved and filed the final regulations for the state’s packaging EPR law, SB 54. California’s SB 54, or the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging...

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