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July 2018 Oglala Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 20215 The District of Columbia Circuit recently held that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s practice of leaving licensing decisions in effect while under… Read More

 July 2018 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (together “Agencies”) have jointly proposed revisions to regulations that implement p… Read More

July 2018 The California Natural Resources Agency has released another round of proposed revisions to the CEQA Guidelines. The draft changes to the guidelines were originally published in January 2018 and followed by public hearings in March 2018. Th… Read More

Public Resources Code §§ 2774, 2774.2.5 June 2018 On June 27, 2018, Governor Brown approved changes to the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (Pub. Resources Code § 2710, et seq [“SMARA”]) relating to how certain mine-related information is su… Read More

May 2018 California Assembly Bill 617, adopted by the state Legislature in 2017, requires stationary air sources to track and report emissions of criteria and toxic pollutants on an annual basis.  The California Air Resources Board is beginning the… Read More

Friends of the Santa Clara River v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 8883 April 2018 The Ninth Circuit has rejected a legal challenge to the Army Corps of Engineer’s Section 404 permit for the 12,000-acre Newhall Ranch mixed-use pr… Read More

Harrison, Temblador, Hungerford & Johnson LLP has been recognized in a recent article by The Recorder (available here) as a leader in obtaining local cannabis land use entitlements and state licenses.  The firm has applied its land use expertise… Read More

A recent survey (available here) found that as of January 15, 2018, Harrison, Temblador, Hungerford & Johnson client Honeydew Farms, LLC holds the most cultivation licenses in the state.  Honeydew Farms, LLC, which is based in Humboldt County, i… Read More