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After half a century, California legislators on the verge of overhauling a landmark environmental law
Two bills endorsed by Gov. Gavin Newsom would be the most transformative changes to the California Environmental Quality Act ...
What EPA’s gutting of environmental grants means for Southern California communities
The grants were dedicated for projects meant to improve minority communities impacted by pollution, climate change and air ...
Were cuts in rooftop solar payments legal? California Supreme Court hears arguments
Environmental groups want to revive higher payments to panel owners. But the subsidies were unfair to non-solar ratepayers, ...
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California high court scrutinizes regulators’ oversight of solar subsidies
SACRAMENTO, California — California Supreme Court justices heard arguments for and against the California Public Utilities ...
California broke law in cutting rooftop solar incentives, state Supreme Court is told
Three environmental groups argued Wednesday before the California Supreme Court that state utility regulators acted illegally ...
pv magazine International1d
California’s regulatory war over rooftop solar
California’s rooftop solar industry faces renewed pressure as the state’s supreme court takes up a legal challenge to its controversial NEM 3.0 policy.
Harmful ultraprocessed foods may be removed from billions of California school lunches
California is moving forward to pass the first state law to define potentially harmful ultraprocessed foods and prohibit them ...
pv magazine USA1d
California’s rooftop solar regulatory war wages on
What’s more, state regulators are not done waging war against rooftop solar. This week the California Assembly approved AB 942, which would retroactively break existing net metering contracts upon a ...
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Environmental groups push for enforcement of California EPS ban
Environmental organizations in California are urging the state agency CalRecycle to more aggressively enforce a ban on ...