Michael Steel

Michael Steel

Morrison & Foerster LLP


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Reforming Proposition 65: Governor’s “Update” Is a Promising Start

Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown’s office announced his intention to propose “updates” to Proposition 65 (Health & Safety Code section 25249.5 et seq.) supposedly designed to make the law less susceptible to the widespread...more

5/9/2013 - Frivolous Lawsuits Jerry Brown Proposition 65 Safe Harbors

Picking Up Steam? CARB Reports that California’s Second Carbon Auction Exceeds Price Expectations

California’s second auction of greenhouse gas (GHG) allowances exceeded expectations, with allowances clearing above both the reserve price and the price predicted by leading market analysts. All of the 12.9 million...more

2/26/2013 - CARB CARB Allowances Carbon Auctions Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Court Rejects Challenge to California’s Cap-and-Trade Carbon Offset Program

On January 25, 2013, a California state court rejected a challenge to an important component of California’s cap-and-trade scheme, its emission offset program. In the first legal decision regarding the program since its...more

1/31/2013 - Cap-and-Trade CARB Climate Change Forest Protocol Greenhouse Gas Emissions Livestock Protocol Set Off

GMO Laws Spread to Washington and New Mexico

Just months after the November defeat of California’s Proposition 37, the “California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act,” proponents of labeling genetically modified food have proposed similar disclosure laws in...more

1/16/2013 - Food Labeling Genetically Engineered Food GMO Proposition 37 Resorts & Restaurants Retail Market

FDA Releases New Food Safety Rules

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released drafts of two long-awaited food safety rules as part of the agency’s ongoing implementation of the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The first proposed rule...more

1/11/2013 - FDA Food Contamination Food Manufacturers Food Safety FSMA

Putting the Brakes on San Diego’s Transportation Plan

The first “Sustainable Communities Strategy” adopted to guide long-range land use and transportation planning under SB 375 now has the distinction of being the first such plan set aside for failing to comply with the...more

12/12/2012 - CEQA Climate Change Greenhouse Gas Emissions Sustainable Communities Strategy

CARB Restates Its Cap-and-Trade Auction Results

Last week the California Air Resources Board (CARB) issued an update to its November 19, 2012 report summarizing the results of the State of California’s first auction of greenhouse gas emissions allowances. The results in...more

12/11/2012 - California Air Resources Board Cap-and-Trade Greenhouse Gas Emissions

California Drops the Hammer on First Carbon Auction Despite New Lawsuit

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) proceeded today with the inaugural carbon allowance auction for its impending “cap-and-trade” greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions regulation program, despite a lawsuit filed yesterday by...more

11/15/2012

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