June 22, 2016 | Category:
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mitchell chadwick llp Wyoming Judge To BLM: Hands Off Oil and Gas Development A federal judge in Wyoming struck down the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s fracking rule for federal and Indian lands, finding that BLM lacked congressional authority to issue the regulations. The Obama fracking rule added a permit requirement for hydraulic fracturing on BLM lands, […]
June 9, 2016 | Category:
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oil and gasFeds Issue First-Ever Technical Guidance For Environmental Justice On June 7th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a technical guidance document Tuesday covering how to incorporate environmental justice principles when evaluating development projects. (Press Release HERE.) According to the EPA, the Technical Guidance for Assessing Environmental Justice in Regulatory Actions outlines approaches and methods to […]
May 31, 2016 | Category:
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Waters Of The U.S.High Court Holds That Jurisdictional Determinations are Subject to Immediate Judicial Review On May 31, 2016, the United States Supreme Court issued its highly-anticipated ruling in United States Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., Inc., holding that the Army Corps of Engineers’ jurisdictional determinations (“JD”) are final agency actions subject to immediate judicial review. […]
May 17, 2016 | Category:
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Waters Of The U.S.Mitchell Chadwick Helps Win Approval of Largest Mitigation Bank in California Mitchell Chadwick LLP, working with Land Veritas, owner of the Petersen Ranch Mitigation Bank and WRA, Inc. are pleased to announce that the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the California Department of […]
April 13, 2016 | Category:
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speciesCalifornia Court of Appeal Decision Leaves Room for Mitigation Bank as a “Highest and Best Use” for Eminent Domain Purposes In County of Santa Barbara v. Double H Properties, LLC, the Court of Appeal for the Second District considered whether the trial court properly excluded evidence indicating that a condemned piece of property was worth […]
April 4, 2016 | Category:
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mitchell chadwick llpFederal Government Hopes to End Idaho’s Challenge to Sage Grouse Plan The U.S. government recently asked a federal judge to toss Idaho’s challenge to the Department of Interior’s (“DOI”) measures designed to protect the habitat and support the population of the greater sage grouse. Idaho has filed suit challenging the DOI’s land-use plan amendments, final […]
April 1, 2016 | Category:
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Waters Of The U.S.Kennedy Skeptical Of Waters Of U.S. Rule Constitutionality Earlier this week, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy called the Clean Water Act “arguably unconstitutionally vague.” This was a welcome hint on the future of the rule for landowners, project proponents and other critics of U.S. EPA’s new Waters of the U.S. Rule, which defines the […]
March 31, 2016 | Category:
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Waters Of The U.S.The Army Corps of Engineers Argues Jurisdictional Determinations Not Subject to Judicial Review In the days before oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the ability of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“ACOE”) to claim jurisdiction over bodies of water, the ACOE emphasized the inability for its jurisdictional determinations to be challenged. The […]
March 9, 2016 | Category:
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Waters Of The U.S.2016 Mining and Land Resources Institute Event Details / Conference Website HERE. Event type: Conference Date: March 10th and 11th Speaker: Braiden Chadwick and Chris Powell Topic: 2015-2016 Mining and Public Lands Update Venue: Atlantis Casino Resort Spa Address: 3700 S Virginia St, Reno, NV 89502 Mitchell Chadwick LLP partner, G. Braiden Chadwick, will be speaking […]
February 25, 2016 | Category:
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Waters Of The U.S.2016 California Wetlands Conference Event Details / Conference Website HERE Event type: Conference Date: March 3rd and 4th Speaker: Braiden Chadwick Topic: “Regulations, Processes, and Discussion of the Industry from the Owner/Operator Perspective” Venue: Hotel Nikko Address: 222 Mason Street, San Francisco, California 94102 Mitchell Chadwick LLP partner, G. Braiden Chadwick, will be speaking on a panel […]
