Environmental Law Blog

In their Clean-Up Information website, the EPA reported that a wind turbine has recently begun operating at the Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR) on Cape Cod, MA, and will produce 25-30% of the energy used by the remediation treatment. The Air… Read More

New federal legislation aimed at protecting the country’s wildlife corridors was introduced last week by U.S. Representatives Rush Hold (NJ-12) and Jared Polis (CO-2). Wildlife corridors, expanses of land in which animals can freely move about and… Read More

On April 26, the First Appellate District of the California Court of Appeals, partially affirmed and remanded to the trial court Chevron’s appeal of the grant of a writ of mandate halting the expansion of the Chevron refinery in Richmond, Californi… Read More

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the Department will make over $200 million dollars available over the next five years for solar and water energy projects. Last year’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act granted the… Read More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Monday that it has awarded nearly $80 million in grant funding to assess, cleanup and redevelop brownfield properties in 40 states, four tribal lands and one U.S. Territory. The funding will… Read More

A renewable energy bill pending in the California Senate is scheduled for hearing on April 20, 2010. Sen. Robert Dutton (R) of District 31, San Bernardino and surrounding areas, introduced SB 1247 in February. SB 1247 proposes to broaden the definiti… Read More

Under California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, AB 32, the Air Resources Board (ARB) is required to create strategies to lower the state’s overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Recently, ARB issued a notice to regulate electric utilities Read More

In determining whether a project required preparation of an Environmental Impact Report (“EIR”) under the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”), the California Supreme Court recently held that the South Coast Air Quality Management Di… Read More