The median price for a home in California has topped the $600,000 mark for the first time ever, according to the latest report from the California Association of Realtors. You can blame the Bay Area and other red hot high-cost areas for the increase. There are now five counties out of the nine-county Bay Area […]
On June 19, a California appellate court upheld LA County’s approval of a new 1,800 acre land-use plan, rejecting the argument that additional environmental assessment was warranted. The County approved the new plan as a “modification” to the existing 2015 Antelope Valley Area Plan, and stated that the changes weren’t significant enough to require an […]
Excerpt (Full Article HERE) From Comstock’s Magazine: Rent control discourages owners from maintaining and improving their property and discourages builders from building more housing units — and drives them to make investments elsewhere. Renters, like me, would be stuck in our old apartments with virtually no choices to move within Midtown or downtown. Construction sites […]
A group of California commercial fishing organizations asked the U.S. Supreme Court this week to reverse a Ninth Circuit decision that expands the scope of the “Chevron deference doctrine.” In the 1984 case of Chevron USA Inc. v. NRDC, the Supreme Court ruled that agencies must be given deference in their interpretation of ambiguous statutes […]
In early May, California became the first state in the country to require solar panels on all new homes, in an attempt to aggressively curb greenhouse gas emissions. The California Energy Commission (“CEC”) adopted updates to the state energy code’s building efficiency standards requiring solar photovoltaic systems on newly constructed residential buildings with three stories […]
The state, and several environmental organizations within it, have urged the Ninth Circuit to overturn a lower court that nixed their challenge to the Trump administration’s planned border wall. The appellants argue that the border wall, and all the construction activities that come alongside it, must first undergo environmental impact assessments. The appellate brief argues […]
On Tuesday (5/15/18), the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order vacating an incidental take permit issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for a pipeline project. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline project, backed by Dominion Energy, involves a 600-mile pipeline for natural gas. The proposed route starts in West Virginia and ends in […]
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NewsOn May 11, the U.S. Government asked a federal judge in California to toss out suits by Oakland and San Francisco seeking to hold the oil industry liable for climate change-related infrastructure damage. The government argued that the cities’ claims are more rightfully handled by regulators and lawmakers, who should set the climate and energy […]
For seven years, a handful of homebuilders offered solar as an optional item to buyers willing to pay extra to go green. Now, California is on the verge of making solar standard on virtually every new home built in the Golden State. The California Energy Commission is scheduled to vote Wednesday, May 9, on new […]
Popular Science, a popular quarterly magazine, published an article on April 4, 2018 calling out California for saying that everything causes cancer. In California Proposition 65 requires business with 10 or more employees to provide reasonable warnings about the use of any chemicals the state has decided “could cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive […]
