Environmental Policies, Groundwater, Farms

California Environmental Law & Policy Update 9.20.24

Allen Matkins on 9/20/2024

Farmers in southern Tulare County will face greater scrutiny for groundwater pumping after the state placed the region on probation following a lengthy hearing in Sacramento on Tuesday....more

Special Water Supply Edition: California Environmental Law & Policy Update 4.12.24

Allen Matkins on 4/15/2024

Powerful pumps that supply much of California’s population with water have killed several thousand threatened and endangered fish this year, prompting environmental groups to demand that state and federal agencies take...more

California Environmental Law & Policy Update - September 2020 #2

Allen Matkins on 9/11/2020

White House directs agencies to relax enforcement - Los Angeles Times – September 9 - A memorandum produced by the White House Office of Management and Budget and sent to federal agency heads last week instructs them to...more

California Environmental Law & Policy Update - May 2019 #5

Allen Matkins on 5/31/2019

Focus - Texas federal court strikes 2015 Waters of the United States rule - AgDaily – May 30 - The U.S. Court for the Southern District of Texas on Tuesday invalidated the Environmental Protection Agency and Army...more

C&H Hog Farms, Inc. Sow-Farrowing Facility (Newton County, Arkansas): Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Denial of...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 1/12/2018

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) public noticed the denial of an application for an Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission Regulation 5 permit by C&H Hog Farms, Inc. (“C&H”). Regulation...more

California Environmental Law & Policy Update - July 2016

Allen Matkins on 7/5/2016

Environmental and Policy Focus - Judge invalidates long-fought Delta management plan Sacramento Bee - Jun 24 - In a decision that could delay or complicate Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to build two huge...more

California Environmental Law & Policy Update - January 2015 #3

Allen Matkins on 2/3/2015

Environmental and Policy Focus - Rail case heading to state Supreme Court: Willits News - Jan 27: The Supreme Court of California has accepted review of a lower court decision holding that federal law implemented by...more

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