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CEQA can’t stop, won’t stop regional board permit
Does CEQA prevent a Regional Water Quality Control Board from issuing its own permit under state water quality law? In
Santa Clara Valley Water District v. San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (2020) 59 Cal.App.5th 199, the First Appellate District answered “no,” holding that CEQA does not bar a regional board from imposing additional requirements on a flood control project, even after the project’s final environmental impact report (FEIR) was certified. To protect against Berryessa Creek flooding, the Army Corps of Engineers designed a flood control project and named the Sa
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The Technology 202: Congress is eying the future of the Silicon Valley s top watchdog in hearings this week Cat Zakrzewski
with Aaron Schaffer Congress is weighing the future of the government’s top Silicon Valley watchdog at a pair of hearings this week. Acting Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and three other commissioners will today testify in front of the Senate, which will focus on expanding the agency’s powers to better protect consumers.
Sen. Maria Cantwell, (D-Wash.), the chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, plans to highlight the agency s work to address scams related to the coronavirus pandemic, amid growing concerns about fake vaccination cards.
Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) reports released Tuesday showed the top lobbying firms in Washington were nearly neck and neck in revenues between January and March, with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck gaining the edge over Akin Gump.
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Brownstein reported $12.53 million for the first quarter of 2021. The firm made nearly $12.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 and over $11.5 million in the first quarter of 2020.
“First quarter, it’s a tale of a new administration with a new Congress working in overdrive to solve problems across the board. We started the term of the new Congress and the new Biden administration with the COVID relief bill, which provoked a lot of interest,” said Marc Lampkin, chair of Brownstein’s Government Relations Department.