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Jurisdictional determinations under the Clean Water Act, revisited

July 23, 2015 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Federal administrative agencies should comply with their own regulations.  Right?  It doesn’t always happen that way. Yesterday, on behalf of our client, Gallagher & Henry, a second-generation, family – owned developer, we filed a lawsuit challenging a determination made by the United States Army Corps of Engineers that Gall ...

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CARB adopts amendments to AB 32's scoping plan

May 27, 2014 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

It was only a matter of time. On the heels of the Cap-and Trade Regulation, on May 22, 2014, the California Air Resources Board adopted a regulatory plan that is so severe and so inimical to the interests of the state that it almost defies description.  Officially refered to as the First Update of the AB 32 Scoping Plan, the new … ...

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PLF's air litigation : retrospective and prospective

December 31, 2013 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

2013 was a big year for PLF’s air litigation program, and 2014 is sure to continue the trend.  Nothing gets me more fired up than bureaucrats who break the law while writing rules the rest of us must obey.  The current crop of greenhouse gas regulations is an egregious example of air emissions controls running amok. … ...

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PLF files suit against EPA for failure to reconsider the Endangerment Finding

October 07, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Theodore Hadzi-Antich Pacific Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit this week challenging EPA's refusal to reconsider its finding under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gasses, mostly carbon dioxide, endanger public health and welfare.  In violation of a statute that has been on the books for decades, EP ...