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California Environmental Law & Policy Update - 8.16.24

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Recent raging winter storms have caved in streets, wrecked piers, collapsed homes and apartment buildings, and submerged property up and down California’s coastline. As sea levels continue to rise from climate change,...more

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Island Nations Ask UN Tribunal to Spell Out Large Countries’ Obligations to Protect Oceans

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea held a series of public hearings that started September 11, 2023 following a request submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change (COSIS) to clarify...more

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Using Technology to Turn the Tide on Climate Change

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A 2022 Interagency Sea Level Rise Technical Report, authored by various governmental agencies, found that global mean sea levels could rise between one and seven feet by 2100.  This would me significant impacts to the more...more

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Progressive New Jersey: The Garden State continues its environmental leadership by enacting forward-looking programs

New Jersey has been a leader in addressing the most significant environmental problems of the day. Decades ago, for example, four years before the enactment of CERCLA, the state’s Spill Compensation and Control Act prohibited...more

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Environmental Notes - July 2021

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Can you still build a bulkhead along the shoreline in coastal Virginia to protect your property? Well, it depends, but now the answer is more likely to be “no.” Major changes to how Virginia tidal waterfront property owners...more

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MEPA Office Issues Draft Interim Protocol on Climate Adaptation and Resiliency: Massachusetts Climate Change Adaptation...

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The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) has issued its draft Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) Interim Protocol on Climate Adaptation and Resiliency (the Interim Protocol),...more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update - March 2020

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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

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[Event] Nossaman's 2019 California Land Use Seminar - May 21st, Costa Mesa, CA

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With recent changes in state and federal leadership, as well as continuing developments from the Trump Administration, this seminar is a must-attend event for anyone involved in land use, zoning, environmental permitting,...more

Allen Matkins

Sustainable Development Update - March 2019 #3

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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

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2019 Connecticut Environmental Legislative Update No. 6

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Say what you will about our elected representatives – they are not short on concepts for new laws. What accounts for this inexhaustible fecundity? Perhaps the fundamental principle of the legislative universe that we call the...more

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