Center for Biological Diversity v. California Department of Forestry

Filing Date: 2009
Case Categories:
Principal Laws:
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
Description: Challenge to department’s failure to analyze greenhouse gas consequences of clear-cutting plan.
  • Center for Biological Diversity v. California Department of Forestry
    Docket number(s): N/A
    Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
    Case Documents:
    Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary
    08/13/2009 Petition for Writ of Mandate Petition for writ of mandate filed. The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Forestry over the agency’s failure to analyze greenhouse gas impacts when it approved a logging plan in the Sierra Nevada. CBD alleged that the Department was required to analyze and mitigate the emissions of the project pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act but failed to do so. Less than two weeks later, the timber company formally withdrew the logging plan at issue in this lawsuit, as well as two other logging plans that were the subject of similar lawsuits in courts in superior courts in Lassen and Tuolumne counties.