The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has identified children’s foam-padded sleeping products that contain the flame retardant TDCPP as an Initial Priority Product pursuant to the Safer Consumer Products Act. These polyurethane foam-padded sleeping products include: Nap mats and cots Sleep positioners Travel Beds Bassinet foam Portable crib mattresses Play pens Car bed pads TDCPP, also known as chlorinated tris or tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate, is considered a carcinogen by California’s […]

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On August 15, 2016, the Ninth Circuit ruled that ESA does not require an Incidental Take Statement for endangered plants. In Center for Biological Diversity, et al., v. Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Land Management was challenged for failing to include a Biological Opinion with an “Incidental Take Statement” for a “threatened species” under the Endangered Species Act, a plant known as the Peirson’s milkvetc, in BLM’s analysis […]

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Bick Law LLP published an article in Law360. Click here to read the article. 

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This summer, a California superior court judge invalidated the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Plan, saying that the plan must be set aside until revised to include measurable or otherwise quantifiable targets that would insure reduced reliance on the watershed and promote restoration of the environment and water supply reliability, as required by the Delta Reform Act. While the plan is invalidated, and until the plan is revised, requirements to protect portions […]

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