Environmental
Dec. 2, 2015
California Supreme Court deals setback to planned new city in Los Angeles
The justices ruled that state wildlife officials did an inadequate analysis of the climate change impacts of plans to develop the idle Newhall Ranch into a community of 58,000 people.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The state Supreme Court dealt a major setback to a developer hoping to build a new city on the outskirts of Los Angeles, ruling Monday that government officials failed to properly analyze the project's climate change impacts.
In a 5-1-1 ruling, the justices reversed the lower court and threw out the state Department of Fish and Wildlife's approval of the Newhall Land and Farming Co.'s plan to t...
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