Environmental and Natural Resources

“Takings” Decision Raises State Law Questions

Originally published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal In a 5-4 decision authored by Justice Alito, the U.S. Supreme Court last week expanded the scope of private property right protections in a takings case which held that a local land use authority must adhere to constitutional takings protections in cases in which a development permit […]

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California Scores Another Cap-and-Trade Victory

[Originaly published as a Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert, February 15, 2013] The California Air Resources Board (CARB) scored another victory in its ongoing effort to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the state to 1990 levels under the mandate of AB 32 (the “Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006”). In a decision by San Francisco […]

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