April 24, 2024 The Environmental Law Network (ELN) is pleased to announce that twenty of ELN’s member law firms were recognized as The Best Lawyers in America and U.S. News Best Law Firms. Lawyers named to The Best Lawyers in America© publication were recognized by their peers in the legal industry […]
April 16, 2024 Fifth District Appellate Court Revisits King & Gardiner Farms, Now Finding Agricultural Conservation Easements May Be Required Under CEQA As Partial Mitigation For Project’s Conversion Of Agricultural Land In a partially published opinion—V Lions Farming, LLC v. County of Kern (2024) 100 Cal.App.5th 412—the Fifth District Court of […]
April 08, 2024 The Central Valley Project Water Supply Allocation Forecast: What Factors into Reclamation’s Determination? Following back-to-back wet winters bringing torrential rainstorms and record-breaking blizzards, water users throughout California may have cause for optimism when it comes to their water supply for 2024. After an initial conservative Central Valley […]
April 4, 2024 Federal USDA Releases Reports On Economic Impact Analysis Of The U.S. Biobased Products Industry And On Hemp Research And Innovation: On March 8, 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) honored the second annual National Biobased Products Day, “a celebration to raise public awareness of biobased products, their benefits and their […]
DOE Report Outlines How the United States Can Sustainably Produce More than One Billion Tons of Biomass Per YearAPRIL 02, 2024 On March 15, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the release of the Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO) 2023 Billion-Ton Report (BT23), the fourth in a series of […]