Legal Opinion
Communities for a Better Environment v. California Resources Agency
California Court of Appeal
Decided November 21, 2002No. C038844PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
DAVIS, Acting P. J.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) authorizes the Secretary of the California Resources Agency (Resources Agency) to adopt “Guidelines” to implement CEQA. The Guidelines are published in title 14 of the California Code of Regulations.
In 1998, the Resources Agency adopted significant revisions to the Guidelines. Several of these revised Guidelines, as characterized by one treatise, “dealt with many of the stickiest, and most controversial, issues in CEQA jurisprudence.”
The present matter encompasses both an appeal and a cross-appeal.
In the appeal, we…
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