Status: Verified petition for writ of mandate and complaint for declaratory relief and damages filed. [ 05/11/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the denial of a permit that would allow Exxon to temporarily truck crude oil from Exxon’s Santa Ynez Unit, consisting of three offshore platforms and an onshore processing center.
Status: Petition for writ of mandate and complaint filed. [ 03/18/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the California Environmental Quality Act review for a project to repower a power plant with five new natural gas-fired engines.
Status: Trial court judgment reversed and trial court instructed to enter a new judgment granting the petition for writ of mandate and specifying actions the County must take to comply with CEQA. [ 04/20/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the California Environmental Quality Act review for a facility that extracted groundwater to produce bottle water.
Status: Reply filed by San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority in support of cross-motion for summary judgment. [ 01/17/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the environmental review and approvals for a 2019-2024 water transfer program from sellers upstream of the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta to downstream buyers that allegedly would exacerbate climate change impacts on groundwater resources.
Status: Verified petition for writ of mandate and complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief filed. [ 03/24/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the Port of Oakland’s approval of the Eagle Rock Aggregates Oakland Terminal Project and the environmental review of the project.
Status: Judgments of trial court affirmed in part and reversed in part. [ 02/14/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to Placer County's environmental review for a land use specific plan and rezoning to allow residential and commercial development and preserve forest land near Truckee and Lake Tahoe.
Status: Verified petition for writ of mandate filed. [ 08/06/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to approvals for a mixed-use residential development, including for failure to consider the greenhouse gas emissions created by the project.
Status: Verified petition for writ of mandate and complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief filed. [ 10/27/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental review for the University of California, Berkeley’s 2021 Long Range Development Plan and two construction projects.
Status: Judgment reversed with directions to the trial court to enter a new judgment granting the petition as to the second cause of action. [ 10/08/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to environmental review for project to convert overhead utility wires to an underground system.
Status: Final judgment of trial court affirmed in part and reversed in part and trial court directed to issue a new writ of mandate and judgment. [ 10/14/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging the environmental review for a mixed-use development in San Diego County.