Quoted, “Supreme Court Poised to Scrap US Waters Test, Attorneys Say,” Bloomberg Law, October 4, 2022.
Authored, “Calif. Mileage Limits Won't Solve Housing, Climate Problems,” Law360, April 4, 2022.
Authored, “Congressional paralysis equals regulatory whiplash,” Daily Journal, October 22, 2021.
Co-authored, “Controversial program targets warehouse emissions,” Daily Journal, July 12, 2021.
Co-author, “Endangered Species Act Update: Sweeping Regulations Already Adopted, With More Proposed, Will Profoundly Alter Implementation of the Act,” California Land Use Law and Policy Reporter (Feature Article), November 2020.
Author, “Coastal Property ‘Managed Retreat’ – A Sensible and Tempered Climate Mitigation Strategy or a Sacrificial Abandonment?,” Climate Change Law and Policy Reporter, April 30, 2020.
Author, “The Endangered Species Act: The High Court, the Services, and Congress All In Play!” California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter (Feature Article), August/September 2018.
Author, “California Greenhouse Gas Scoping Plan Revisions Take Aim at Land Use,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter (Feature Article), November 2017.
Author, “Is the State’s Cap-and-Trade Program a ‘Tax’?—Not According to the California Court of Appeal,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, May 2017.
Author, “San Francisco Bay Area Grapples With Particulate Matter Pollution—and Size Does Matter,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, May 2017.
Author, “San Francisco Bay Area Air District Releases Draft Clean Air Plan for 2017 and Beyond,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, April 2017.
Author, “President Trump Proposes Major Cuts to EPA Budget and Staff,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, April 2017.
Author, “The Endangered Species Act, Global Climate Change, and the Trump Administration,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter (Feature Article), March 2017.
Author, “California Looks to Housing and Land Use Policy to Play Ever-Increasing Role in Statewide Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, February 2017.
Author, “President-Elect Trump’s Cabinet Choices and Climate Change— Where Might This All Be Heading?” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, January 2017.
Author, “Greenhouse Gas Strategies Courtesy of the Golden State Warriors Franchise—California Court of Appeal Upholds Project’s CEQA Analysis,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, January 2017.
Author, “Newhall Ranch Announces It Will Be a ‘Net Zero’ Community,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, December 2016.
Author, “Ninth Circuit Upholds Use of Climate Change Predictive Models as a Basis for Listing Species for Protection Under the Federal Endangered Species Act,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, December 2016.
Author, “California High Speed Rail Barrels Through Another Potential Barrier,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, November 2016.
Author, “Technology Promises a Salty Breakthrough in Making Solar Energy Storage More Efficient,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, November 2016.
Author, “California Air Resources Board Scoping Plan Looks Beyond SB 375 for Transportation and Land Use Sector Reductions,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, October 2016.
Author, “California Again Blazing Trail on Greenhouse Gas Reduction Commitments, Compliance With Passage of SB 32 and AB 197,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, October 2016.
Co-author, “White House Council on Environmental Quality Issues Final Guidance on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Consideration Under NEPA,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, August/September 2016.
Author, “Climate Change West Coast Battleground: Transportation Facilities and an Opposition to Coal,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, August/September 2016.
Author, “Ninth Circuit Supports BLM Decision to Grant Right of Way on Public Lands to Facilitate Wind Project,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, July 2016.
Author, “Environmentalists Continue Attacks on Mega Solar Project in Panoche Valley,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, June 2016.
Author, “Massachusetts High Court Finds Real and Enforceable Teeth in Its Global Warming Solutions Act,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, June 2016.
Author, “Attorneys General Investigate Exxon Mobil on Climate Change—What Did They Know and When Did They Know It?” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, May 2016.
Author, “EPA Region IX Administrator, Jared Blumenfeld, Steps Down,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, May 2016.
Author, “Ninth Circuit Reinstates Polar Bear Critical Habitat Designation,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, April 2016.
Author, “Oregon Governor Signs Into Law Nation’s First State Phaseout of Coal for Energy Generation—While California Bill Package Seeks to Halt Coal Shipments Through the State,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, April 2016.
Author, “New Rules for Critical Habitat Designation Under the Endangered Species Act Heighten Stakes for Land Use Decisions,” California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter (Feature Article), March 2016.
Author, “Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries Issue New Rules for Critical Habitat Designation Under the Federal Endangered Species Act,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, March 2016.
Author, “San Francisco Regional Air District and U.C. Berkeley Unveil ‘Consumption-Based’ Emission Inventory of Greenhouse Gases,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter, March 2016.
Author, “As to Determining Significance for New Development’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions, the California Supreme Court Giveth and Taketh Away,” Climate Change Law & Policy Reporter (Feature Article), February 2016.
Author, “Clean Water Act Jurisdiction by Executive Proclamation,” Stice & Block, LLP, Client Alert, May 30, 2015.
Author, “Federal Wildlife Agencies Propose Stricter, Recovery-Based Rule for Habitat Protection,” Stice & Block, LLP, Client Alert, May 11, 2014.
Author, “Litigation Under the Endangered Species Act: Economics Continue to Dominate Critical Habitat Cases . . . for Now,” California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter (Feature Article), February 2003.
Author, “Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don’t—Endangered Species Act Litigation Gridlock at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,” California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter (Feature Article), May 2002.
Author, “Stormwater Regulation: Regulatory Waters Muddy as the State Water Resources Control Board Endorses a More Aggressive Approach to Municipal Stormwater Permits,” California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter (Feature Article), February 2002.
Author, “Critical Habitat Under the Endangered Species Act: Key to Recovery or Unworkable Quagmire With Only Marginal Species Benefit?” California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter (Feature Article), January 2001.
Author, “[Critical Habitat] Designations Do Have Economic Impact,” Los Angeles Times, October 22, 2000.
Author, “Pre-TMDL ‘Interim’ Storm Water Programs Lack Scientific Foundation,” Environmental Liability, Enforcement & Penalties Reporter (Feature Article), September 2000.
Author, “Misapplication of California’s Unfair Competition Act: A Threat to Legislatively Mandated Certainty in the Land Use Realm,” California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter (Feature Article), January 2000.
Author, “Nationwide Permit Program Modification Increases Likelihood of Individual Permit Scrutiny for California Developers,” California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter (Feature Article), April 1997.
Co-author, “The Availability of Jury Trials in Land Use Litigation,” California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter, November 1996.