News & Analysis as of September 21, 2024

California Environmental Quality Act › Telecommunications

+ Follow

New Environmental and Telecommunications Laws

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 1/13/2020

Telecommunications - AB 1699 Telecommunications: mobile Internet service providers: first response agencies: emergencies - Fire officials experienced a significant data transmission slowdown of their mobile emergency...more

CEQA Class 3 Categorical Exemptions Permitted for AT&T Installations

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 6/12/2014

The First District Court of Appeal held that AT&T’s proposed installation of new utility cabinets in the City of San Francisco fell within CEQA’s Class 3 categorical exemption for the “installation of small new equipment and...more

Court Approves San Francisco's Use of Class 3 CEQA Exemption for Telecommunications Project

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 5/9/2014

Opinion clarifies when projects involving the construction of hundreds of new small utility structures may be exempt from environmental review - The California Court of Appeal upheld San Francisco’s determination that...more

Court of Appeal Green Lights AT&T “Lightspeed” Project’s Utility Boxes

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 5/5/2014

A neighborhood association’s challenge to AT&T’s proposal to install 726 metal utility boxes housing telecommunications equipment on San Francisco sidewalks was rejected by the California Court of Appeal. At this time the...more

CPUC Seeks to Revisit Controversial Decision on CEQA Process for Telecommunications Projects - Public Agency Participation is...

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 5/7/2013

After a pause of more than a year, the CPUC has revived its effort to determine whether and how it will conduct environmental review of certain telecommunications projects under the California Environmental Quality Act...more

5 Results

View per page