On-Demand Webinar | Living on the Edge: Managing Sea Level Rise in California
California approves ambitious new plan to deal with climate change and sea-level rise - San Francisco Chronicle – February 26 - The state's Ocean Protection Council, the cabinet-level policy body within the California...more
Focus - EPA broke rules in shake-up of science panels, according to GAO study - The New York Times – July 15 - The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Monday concluded that the U.S. Environmental...more
Focus - Destruction from sea level rise in California could exceed worst wildfires and earthquakes - Bakersfield Californian - March 13 - In the most extensive study to date on sea level rise in California, a team of...more
Focus - Federal court reinstates clean water rule delayed by Trump administration - ABC NEWS - Aug 16 A federal judge in South Carolina has issued an injunction to block the Trump administration's move to delay a clean...more
On Monday, June 25, 2018, Judge William Alsup dismissed the public nuisance case brought by the City of Oakland and the State of California against five major oil companies. The suit sought payment of damages into a fund to...more
Climate change related cases are on the rise nationwide, just like sea water levels. In fact, according to a United Nations study released in May 2017, the U.S. has three times more climate change litigation cases than the...more
As federal efforts to roll back environmental regulations from the Obama era continue, environmental groups have been increasingly filing lawsuits against industry alleging damages related to climate change impacts, using the...more
On July 17, 2017, Marin County, San Mateo County, and the City of Imperial Beach filed three lawsuits in California Superior Court against a number of large oil, gas and coal companies. The complaints assert a variety of...more