Environmental Practice Articles

• "Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change: CEQA Catches Up With Science, Celebrities, and Product Placement"
  California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter -- June 2007
  
• "Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A Regulatory Scheme, A Splintered Decision and a Court in Flux"
  Western Water Law & Policy Reporter -- August/September 2006
  
• "Recent Developments Relating to Pre-Acquisition Environmental Due Diligence"
  California Real Property Journal, Volume 23 Number 3 -- June 2, 2006
  
• "Who'll Stop the Rain?"
  The Public Law Journal -- Summer/Fall 2005
  
• "Will California Finally Make Good on its Promise to Include DG in the State's Energy Mix?"
  Spark -- September 2005
  
• "The New World of State and Local Wetlands Regulation"
  California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter -- March 2005
  
• "CERCLA: Cutting A Wider Path By Preemption Of State Law Claims"
  Environmental Litigation Committee Newsletter -- December 14, 2004
  
• "A Case Study in Approving a General Plan By Initiative: A Closer Look at a El Dorado County's 2004 Ballot Measure G"
  California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter -- April 2004
  
• "Treatment of California's Wastewater: Downey Brand's Melissa A. Thorme"
  Sacramento Lawyer -- January/February 2003
  
• "Antibacksliding: Understanding One of the Most Misunderstood Provisions of the Clean Water Act"
  The Environmental Law Reporter -- March 2001
  
• "Clean Water Action Section 305(b): A Potential vehicle for Incorporating Economics into the "TMDL" and Water Quality Standards-Setting Process"
  Tulane Environmental Law Journal -- Winter 1999
  

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