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CEQA Identified by Assembly Select Committee Report as Among Obstacles to Permitting Reform Needed to Meet State’s Housing and...

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The “California Assembly Select Committee on Permitting Reform Final Report – March 2025” (the “Report”), published earlier this month, sounds an alarm bell regarding the need to overhaul the state’s “failed approach to...more

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Planning and Infrastructure Bill - The Next Step on the Road to Planning Reform

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The much trailed Planning and Infrastructure Bill introduced to Parliament on 11 March covers wide ranging changes to the conventional planning process, CPO, development corporations and infrastructure planning....more

A&O Shearman

UK energy: the UK Government introduces the eagerly awaited Planning and Infrastructure Bill

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Making good on the 2024 King’s Speech promise, the Government introduced the eagerly anticipated Planning and Infrastructure Bill (the Bill) to Parliament on March 11, 2025. While retaining the bulk of the existing planning...more

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New York Fighting the Federal Government to Clear the Air on Congestion Pricing

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Ask any New Yorker what their top five complaints are about the city and either “traffic” or “gridlock” (or both) are all but certain to be represented. Indeed, you don’t get to be called “the Business Capital of the World”...more

Allen Matkins

Sustainable Development and Land Use Update 2.26.25

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On February 20, 2025, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) posted a pre-publication notice on its website of an Interim Final Rule that rescinds its regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy...more

Hogan Lovells

Politics of housing in the UK: successfully planning for housing delivery?

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The most significant change to date is the revisions made in December 2024 to the National Planning Policy Framework, which sets out the policies to which local planning authorities are to have regard, both when formulating...more

Paul Hastings LLP

LA Wildfires: Will the Governor’s Efforts to Streamline Environmental Permitting Really Matter?

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On January 12, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order (EO N-4-25) to suspend permitting requirements under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the California Coastal Act, with the...more

Perkins Coie

Approval of Class 32 Exemption Invalid Without Analysis of Project Consistency with Redevelopment Plan

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The Court of Appeal held that before issuing a CEQA Class 32 exemption, the City of Los Angeles was required to assess whether the project was consistent not only with the applicable zoning ordinance but also with the area’s...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

California Open to Input on Endangered Species Listing for Burrowing Owl

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The western burrowing owl was just recently elevated to a “candidate species” under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA) by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). As a candidate species, the owl now...more

Mayer Brown

Singapore’s Carbon Regulations: Paving The Way For The Green Plan 2030

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Recognising the threat of climate change and the importance of sustainable development, Singapore has made a commitment to establishing a robust framework of environmental and climate change laws and regulations – an...more

Nossaman LLP

Toilet-to-Tap or the Future of California Water?

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If there is one truism in California water, it is that there is not enough of it. In part to try to help address that issue, on December 19, 2023, the California State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) adopted...more

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France Adopts Reindustrialization Measures

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In Short - The Situation: A new set of measures has been adopted in France which will promote "Green Industry" by streamlining environmental and industrial authorization and supporting low-carbon industrialization...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Reimbursement for Remediation: Massachusetts Brownfields Tax Credits Program Extended

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Today Governor Maura Healy signed legislation extending the eligibility deadlines for the Massachusetts Brownfields tax credits program by five years. The legislation had been included in the budget bill, which had recently...more

Burr & Forman

Legislation Seeks to Expand Alabama Brownfields Program

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This week a bill was introduced in the Alabama Legislature which would expand the state’s Brownfield Redevelopment and Voluntary Cleanup Program through the implementation of new features aimed to increase participation in...more

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New Tennessee Brownfield Legislation May Open Opportunities

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Tennessee’s new Brownfield legislation proposed by Governor Bill Lee provides significant incentives for acquisition of contaminated property. The legislation envisions three new areas of concentration for brownfield...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Lights the Bat Signal, Designating the Northern Long-Eared Bat as Endangered

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According to the USFWS press release, “the northern long-eared bat is found in 37 states in the eastern and north central United States, the District of Columbia, and all Canadian provinces from the Atlantic Coast west to the...more

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Bay Area Air Quality Management District Updates CEQA Thresholds for Greenhouse Gas Impacts

On April 20, 2022, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) adopted new recommended thresholds for determining the significance of individual projects’ greenhouse gas impacts under the California Environmental...more

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Boston Requires Carbon Neutrality for Existing Buildings

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Furthering the aims of Boston’s 2019 Climate Action Plan, which identified large buildings as major carbon emitters, Boston City Council amended the Building Energy Reporting and Disclosure Ordinance (BERDO) to require all...more

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Boon or Bane? New York’s Environmental Rights Amendment

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Last week’s election had news outlets across the State and nation talking about Long Island’s rare “red wave”.  While many are now debating what the apparent sea change means for Long Islanders, at least for the next few...more

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NYC Climate Mobilization Act – Relief in Sight?

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Local Law 97 of New York City’s Climate Mobilization Act (the “Act”) is the City’s aggressive greenhouse gas emission reduction plan for buildings.  The City has published figures indicating that approximately 70% of...more

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New Massachusetts Brownfields Tax Credits Regulations Just Released

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The Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR) issued final regulations effective July 9, 2021 (the Regulations) that are intended to aid in the implementation of the Massachusetts Brownfields Tax Credits program, which was...more

Mayer Brown

Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets: Taskforce Releases Core Carbon Principles and Roadmap

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Over 1,000 firms have made either indicative or concrete pledges to align their greenhouse gas emissions with the Paris Agreement—which means reducing emissions to zero by 2050....more

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