Calif. Projects Must Take Health Impacts Into Account

Law360, New York (June 17, 2014, 10:22 AM EDT) -- In Sierra Club v. County of Fresno, a decision that will likely impact projects across California, the Court of Appeal for the Fifth Appellate District issued its second major California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") decision of the year, finding that when a project will result in pollutant emissions that exceed thresholds established by an air-quality district an environmental impact report must provide a detailed evaluation of the human health risks associated with each exceedance. As such, the decision arguably raises the bar with respect to a lead agency's obligation to analyze a project's air-quality impacts on human health....

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