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Environmental & Energy,
Administrative/Regulatory

Aug. 31, 2018

David’s green slingshot

It only takes a village (in New York) to alter environmental review under California’s regulatory regime.

Christa Lim

Christa is an energy and environmental attorney. She works in the regulatory group at a California utility.

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David versus Goliath is a tale as old as time, historically manifesting in stories periodically dotting the map. In the energy and environmental law space, a new rendering of this story began to unfold this summer when an environmental and historic preservation nonprofit coming out of a village in New York state, Otsego 2000, challenged a natural gas company's endeavor to build out pipeline facilities located in Otsego's backyard...

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