ELN Updates
Environmental Law & Policy Alert – Update from Somach Simmons & Dunn
April 16, 2024 Fifth District Appellate Court Revisits King & Gardiner Farms, Now Finding Agricultural Conservation Easements May Be Required Under CEQA As Partial Mitigation For Project’s Conversion Of Agricultural Land In a partially published opinion—V Lions Farming, LLC v. County of Kern (2024) 100 Cal.App.5th 412—the Fifth District Court of…
Environmental Law & Policy Alert – Update from Somach Simmons & Dunn
April 08, 2024 The Central Valley Project Water Supply Allocation Forecast: What Factors into Reclamation’s Determination? Following back-to-back wet winters bringing torrential rainstorms and record-breaking blizzards, water users throughout California may have cause for optimism when it comes to their water supply for 2024. After an initial conservative Central Valley…
Biobased and Renewable Products – Update from Bergeson & Campbell, April 2024
April 4, 2024 Federal USDA Releases Reports On Economic Impact Analysis Of The U.S. Biobased Products Industry And On Hemp Research And Innovation: On March 8, 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) honored the second annual National Biobased Products Day, “a celebration to raise public awareness of biobased products, their benefits and their…
DOE Report Outlines How the U.S. Can Sustainably Produce More than One Billion Tons of Biomass Per Year – Update from Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
DOE Report Outlines How the United States Can Sustainably Produce More than One Billion Tons of Biomass Per YearAPRIL 02, 2024On March 15, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the release of the Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO) 2023 Billion-Ton Report (BT23), the fourth in a series of assessments…
Federal Judge Indicates He Will Confer with Parties on April 4th Before Deciding the Parameters of the Stay of Florida’s 404 Program – Update from Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A.
Federal Judge Indicates He Will Confer with Parties on April 4th Before Deciding the Parameters of the Stay of Florida’s 404 Program On Friday, March 8th Judge Randolph Moss, who previously issued an Order vacating Florida’s Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 404 Program, ordered parties to meet for a status…
APHIS Seeks Comment on Draft EIS for Deregulation of Maize Developed Using Genetic Engineering – Update from Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
APHIS Seeks Comment on Draft EIS for Deregulation of Maize Developed Using Genetic EngineeringAPRIL 01, 2024The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced on March 22, 2024, that it has prepared a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) and draft plant pest risk assessment (PPRA)…
EPA Issues Draft Risk Evaluation for Formaldehyde, Preliminarily Finds That Formaldehyde Poses Unreasonable Risk to Human Health – Update from Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
EPA announced on March 15, 2024, the availability of and solicited public comment on the 2024 draft risk evaluation for formaldehyde prepared under TSCA. 89 Fed. Reg. 18933. EPA states that it “preliminarily finds that formaldehyde poses unreasonable risk to human health. The risk evaluation notes that these risks may not apply to…
Environmental Law & Policy Alert – Update from Somach Simmons & Dunn
March 22, 2024 California Appellate Court Determines That the “Pay First” Rule Applies to SGMA Fee Lawsuits The Fourth District Court of Appeal has ruled in Mojave Pistachio, LLC et al. v. Superior Court of Orange County, Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority (Case No. G062327, opinion published Feb. 8, 2024) that the…