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Environmental

Mar. 20, 2009

Environmental Lawyers Grapple With Evolving Emissions Standards

While the state's landmark law to combat climate change will not take effect until 2012, an environmental law long on the books is already testing the legal framework for curbing greenhouse gas emissions when it comes to individual projects around the state.

By Fiona Smith
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - While the state's landmark law to combat climate change will not take effect until 2012, an environmental law long on the books is already testing the legal framework for curbing greenhouse gas emissions when it comes to individual projects around the state.

For decades, government agencies have reviewed projects' environmental impacts as required by the California Environmental Quality Ac...

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