Ensuring Massive Development in Placer County Mitigates Its Impacts on Climate Change

by JakeAdmin | Sep 7, 2022 | Climate

In 2019,Placer County approved the controversial Sunset Area Plan development, which would encompass more than 8,500 acres in western Placer County near the cities of Roseville, Rocklin and Lincoln. The massive project would generate 900,000 vehicle trips per day on...

Combatting Climate Change Through Challenge to Freeway-Centric Regional Transportation Plan In San Diego County

by JakeAdmin | Jul 14, 2022 | CEQA Successes, Climate

In 2017, the California Court of Appeal found that the EIR for a regional transportation plan adopted by the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) violated CEQA. The prevailing parties included state and local environmental groups and the California Attorney...

Requiring Massive “Newhall” Development in Los Angeles County to Slash Greenhouse Gas

by JakeAdmin | Jul 14, 2022 | CEQA Successes, Climate

Conservation groups used CEQA to challenge the Newhall Ranch development, one of the largest mixed use projects ever considered in Los Angeles County. While the project would increase GHG emissions by roughly 260,000 CO2-equivalent metric tons each year, the EIR had...

Streamlining a Major Solar Electric Project in San Bernardino County While Protecting Workers and Habitat

by Sev Williams | Jun 1, 2022 | CEQA Successes, Climate

Healthy natural areas play a critical role in absorbing greenhouse gases and stabilizing the climate. A utility-scale solar electric project in the desert of San Bernardino County was fast-tracked through the CEQA process and now serves to slow climate change on two...

Promoting Green Energy at New Walmarts in the Inland Empire

by Sev Williams | Jul 21, 2013 | CEQA Successes, Climate

Building plans for Walmart Supercenters in Perris and Yucca Valley were suspended after the Center for Biological Diversity and others filed lawsuits against the retailer in 2007 and 2008. Citing a violation of CEQA, these groups argued that Walmart’s EIR did not...

Requiring Hospital in Sonoma County to Mitigate Greenhous Gas Emissions

by Sev Williams | Jun 1, 2022 | CEQA Successes, Climate

In 2010, TRANSDEF, along with fellow litigants the Sierra Club and the California Nurses Association, prevailed in challenging Sonoma County’s approval of a new Sutter Hospital on the fringe of Santa Rosa. Their claim rested on the EIR’s inadequate examination of...