Blog Entries for Joel tagged 'OPR'

OPR hands CARB back its watch, unwound

joel.ellinwood@lawyer-planner.com — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:00:00 +0100

Thresholds of Significance for greenhouse gas emissions retain local discretion in proposed SB 97 CEQA Guidelines revisions

First published in California Planning & Development Report, January 9, 2008

The Governor’s Office of Planning & Research (OPR) has released a draft of the new CEQA Guidelines for assessing greenhouse gas emissions and global warming impacts of and on projects as mandated by SB 97 (Public Resources Code § 21083.05).

The proposed re [...]

Climate Change: Local Government Response

joel.ellinwood@lawyer-planner.com — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:00:00 +0100

National Business Institute is offering "Climate Change: Local Government Response" on December 12, 2008 at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel, 1230 J Street in Sacramento.

The faculty for this seminar are land use and environmental attorneys Timothy D. Crimin of Meyers Nave, Eric W. Davis of Somach, Simmons & Dunn and Joel Ellinwood, AICP Lawyer-Planner. Topics include Planning, Land Use and Climate Change; Local Government Operations and Initiatives and CEQA and Climate [...]

OPR asks for the time and CARB sends instructions on how to build a watch

joel.ellinwood@lawyer-planner.com — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:00:00 +0100

[first published in California Planning & Development Report on October 30, 2008]

The old joke about the man on the street who asked a scientist for the time and instead got a two-hour lecture about how to build a watch (and the poor fellow never did find out what time it was) was played out again in Sacramento this week when the California Air Resources Board staff released its "Preliminary Draft Staff Proposal Recommended Approaches for Setting Interim Significance Thresholds [...]