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Published July 14, 2021, 11:25 AM The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) urged the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force (AILTF) on Wednesday, July 14, to file criminal and administrative charges against government officials and private entities involved in the continued violation of environmental laws in the protected watershed areas of San Roque in Baras, Rizal. DILG Undersecretary and spokesperson Jonathan Malaya sa...

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Finally, people in Chile have given a clear mandate to the constituent assembly to change the 1980 constitution imposed by the vicious military dictatorship of General Pinochet.The Chilean...

There is an old expression that describes an effort to exaggerate or magnify the significance of a dispute – “You don’t need to make a federal case out of it.” That expression describes precisely the Abatti effort to engage the U.S. Supreme Court in a review of the California Appellate Court decision that completely rejected the notion that landowning farmers in the Imperial Valley own a water right that runs with their land. Under applicable law, they have a protected righ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A challenge to a water district’s increase in its ad valorem property tax was untimely under the 60-day statute of limitations in the validation statutes. Code of Civil Procedure sections 860-870 provide for accelerated procedures for determining the validity of certain bonds, assessments and agreements entered into by public agencies. Referred to as the validation statutes, they allow a public agency to file an action to promptly ...

A regional water board is not required to estimate the compliance costs for individual permittees before issuing a permit. City of Duarte v. State Water Resources Control Board, 60 Cal....

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) on February 25, 2021, approved a new regulation formally prohibiting high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF), or fracking, in the Delaware River Basin. The final rule makes permanent a drilling moratorium imposed by the DRBC in 2010. In a release announcing the ban, the DRBC declared that the hydraulic fracturing ban was imposed “to control future pollution, protect the public health and p...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: “The more I know, the less I understand/All the things I thought I’d figured out, I have to learn again” – Don Henley, “ The Heart of the Matter” One of CEQA’s bedrock principles is that environmental review must precede project approval.  (E.g., POET, LLC v. California Air Resources Board (2013) 217 Cal.App.4th 1214; CEQA Guidelines, § 15004(a).)  To reverse the order and “put the cart before the horse” would be...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has taken various actions and posted guidance to help regulated entities address operational issues and environmental noncompliance that resulted from power outages, water supply disruptions, and other weather-triggered challenges from the extended period of sub-freezing temperatures throughout Texas in February 2021.  Along with other actions, the Commission obtained approval from...

On February 18, 2021, the First Appellate District issued an opinion in Sweeny et al. v. California Regional Water Quality Control Bd., San Francisco Bay Region et al. (Case No. A153583) (“ Sweeny”).  The opinion is much anticipated given its relevance to the continued validity of the State Water Resources Control Board’s recently adopted State Procedures for Discharges of Dredged and Fill Material (“Procedures”).  The Appellate Court reversed the lower court in the entirety, subst...