Environmental Law
Envt'l Law News Fall 2016, Vol. 25, No. 2
Content
- Editor's Note...
- Environmental Law News Publications Committee
- Regulating Groundwater in California: How the Landscape Is Changing with Sgma
- Table of Contents
- The Evolving Regulation of Tce Vapor Intrusion Issues
- California Groundwater Management: Laboratories of Local Implementation or State Command and Control?
- Powering Down Chevron? Chevron Deference and the Clean Power Plan Litigation
- 2016-2017 Environmental Law Section Executive Committee
- New Standards for Ceqa Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Impacts
- California Chemicals Regulation After Tsca Reform
New Standards for CEQA Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Impacts
by Dean Wallraff* and Aruna Prabhala**1
Dean Wallraff
Aruna Prabhala
Climate change is the defining, and arguably the most important, environmental issue of our time. The law is scrambling to catch up with the scientific imperative for steep and rapid reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. The California Supreme Court recently shed new light on the types of significance thresholds that may be used in evaluating the significance of a project’s greenhouse-gas emissions under the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") in Center for Biological Diversity v. Department of Fish & Wildlife, 62 Cal.4th 204.