News & Analysis as of

Environmental Impact Report (EIR) Public Hearing

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

A Win for Consistency Evaluations Under CEQA Guidelines 15183: Court Rules that Public Controversy is not a Basis for Additional...

In its recent decision in Hilltop Group Inc. v. County of San Diego, California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal issued a number of holdings that resulted in a strong ruling in support of streamlined environmental review for...more

Alston & Bird

Land Use Matters: December 2021

Alston & Bird on

Los Angeles Department of City Planning - New City Planning Application Fees Take Effect on December 27, 2021 - In the fall, the Los Angeles City Council approved a comprehensive update to the Department of City Planning’s...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Proposed MEPA Regulations Leave Key Substantive Questions Unanswered

Holland & Knight LLP on

After commencing a regulatory review effort in February 2021, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) has issued proposed amended Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) regulations...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

New Jersey Enacts First-Of-Its-Kind Environmental Justice Legislation

Lowenstein Sandler LLP on

Since his inauguration in January 2018, New Jersey Governor Philip D. Murphy has steadily advanced an aggressive environmental justice agenda. On April 20, 2018, he signed Executive Order No. 23, which directed the New Jersey...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Proposed NEPA Regulations Would Streamline Analysis and Eliminate Cumulative Impacts

The proposed NEPA regulations would eliminate agencies’ obligation to consider a project’s indirect and cumulative impacts in environmental reviews and would shorten the time frame for completing reviews, among other major...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

NEPA Overhaul? CEQ Proposes Significant Changes to Federal Environmental Review

Pierce Atwood LLP on

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), a division of the Executive Office of the President, today published in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would make significant changes to its regulations...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Real Estate and Land Use - September 2015

Substance Over Form—A Refreshing Application of CEQA Analysis: City of Irvine v. County of Orange (2015) 283 Cal.App.4th 526 - Why It Matters: The Court of Appeal in City of Irvine v. County of Orange elaborated...more

7 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide