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Richmond casino case: how early is too early for CEQA?

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 15 2010

In Parchester Village Neighborhood Council v. City of Richmond, the California Court of Appeal recently held that the City of Richmond’s decision to enter into a Municipal Services Agreement (MSA) with a Native American tribe did not constitute a “project” requiring California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review, even though the agreement effectively committed the City to a particular course of action

2010 Minnesota legislative summary

  • Larkin Hoffman
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 27 2010

Liquor stores may offer tastings of beer and spirits in addition to wine under amendments to Minn. Stat. 340A.419

EPA to assist communities in Sustainable Building Blocks Program

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 11 2011

EPA announced February 3, 2011, that it will work with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation to help communities achieve “sustainable planning” through the Sustainable Communities Building Blocks Program

GSA's green proving ground program

  • Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 4 2011

On April 21, 2011, the U.S. General Services Administration ("GSA") announced that it has selected sixteen sustainable building technologies to be tested and evaluated at a number of federal facilities throughout the country

South Carolina Supreme Court expands DHEC's regulatory authority over isolated wetlands throughout the state under the pollution control act

  • Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 23 2011

In the July 2011 decision Georgetown County League of Women Voters v. Smith Land Co., Inc., the South Carolina Supreme Court held that the Department of Health and Environmental Control (“DHEC”) has jurisdiction to regulate isolated wetlands under the South Carolina Pollution Control Act, an expansion of DHEC’s regulatory authority over isolated wetlands throughout the State, beyond the eight “coastal zone” counties governed by the coastal management program organized pursuant to the Coastal Zone Management Act

DDOE issues update on energy star benchmarking regulation

  • Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 13 2011

The District of Columbia Green Building Act of 2006 and the Clean and Affordable Energy Act of 2008, which establish the legislative requirements for buildings' environmental performance, require the District government to benchmark energy use for public buildings 10,000 square feet or larger

Despite dismissal, merits of Gifford v. USGBC still being weighed

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 29 2011

Because hospitality developers are increasingly being encouraged, and in some cases required, to comply with the LEED rating system, we have been keeping an eye on Gifford v. U.S. Green Building Council

Proposed amendments to the NYC zoning resolution related to parking in the Manhattan core (Community District 1-8)

  • Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2011

The Department of City Planning is proposing to make far-reaching changes to Article I, Chapter 3 of the Zoning Resolution, which governs permitted parking in the Manhattan Core, which is defined as Manhattan south of 96th Street on the East Side and south of 110th Street on the West Side

Corps drops appeal over wetlands rules

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 21 2011

As we wrote earlier, in New Hope Power Company and Okeelanta Corporation v. United States Army Corps of Engineers and Steven L. Stockton, U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore of the Southern District of Florida enjoined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' from enforcing its guidance documents, which modified the Corps's interpretation of its wetlands regulations

Supreme Court opens door to suits challenging federal agency actions

  • Polsinelli Shughart PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2012

On March 21, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision effectively broadening the circumstances under which parties may go to court to seek review from final agency actions

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