Mar 27, 2017 | Environmental law, News
By Lee N. Smith & Craig A. Tristao The new Greenhouse gas legislation “package” extends California’s Gas Cap & Trade program and sets new emission reduction goals for 2030. It further sets emission reductions for methane. The...
Mar 27, 2017 | Environmental law, News
OEHHA, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, has released yet another iteration of the “fair and reasonable” standard for Prop 65 warnings. This March draft contains numerous changes mostly minor changes to try to increase the clarity of the...
Mar 27, 2017 | Environmental law, News
PME lawyers Lee Smith and Craig Tristao spoke at the CLFP’s Food Safety Nutrition and Labeling Committee, on May 16, 2016. They covered the topics of the State Water Board’s Proposed General Order for Recycled Water and on the use of Production Water on Agricultural....
Mar 27, 2017 | Environmental law, News
by Lee N. Smith In a case that has been widely watched, a Central Los Angeles Superior Court has issued a tentative ruling in the Phase One portion of a case that was originally filed against coffee purveyors, alleging that the acrylamide levels in their coffee...
Mar 27, 2017 | Environmental law, News
By: Lee N. Smith California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (“OEHHA”) has released a new, revised version of the proposed Proposition 65 warning regulations apparently because they could not finish their rulemaking within one year, as required by...
Mar 27, 2017 | Environmental law, News
On May 1, 2015 the State Water Resources Control Board issued an immediate curtailment notice to those diverting water from the Sacramento River Watershed and Delta under a Post-1914 water right permit, license, registration or certificate. This curtailment follows...
