The State Water Board has been asked to approve a water right change petition to allow the construction of the California WaterFix Project. The California WaterFix Project includes water conveyance facilities consisting of three new water diversion intakes along the Sacramento River between Clarksburg and Courtland and two 30-mile-long, 40-foot-diameter tunnels to convey water to the Projects’ existing pumping facilities near Tracy. Water would be diverted from the Sacramento River […]

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In response to stakeholder comments, on November 27, 2015, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) withdrew proposed regulations to amend Proposition 65 safe harbor warning requirements and issued a new, revised set of proposed regulations. While the new proposal addresses some of the many concerns expressed by stakeholders, it still falls far short of reducing the uncertainty and burdens businesses face when attempting to comply with Proposition 65’s […]

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Peabody Energy has agreed to disclose to its shareholders, the public, and the SEC, climate-related business risks going forward. In particular, the disclosures will address regulations concerning carbon emissions from coal businesses, like Peabody’s. In the past, Peabody claimed it did not have the ability to predict how much increased cost to the business would be incurred by climate change regulations. However, internally, Peabody had projected a one-third drop in […]

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Last week, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a research division of the World Health Organization, announced that processed meats such as bacon, sausage, ham, and hot dogs cause cancer. Specifically, IARC classified processed meats as “Group 1, Carcinogenic to Humans” relative to colorectal cancer, the same level of carcinogenicity as asbestos and tobacco. This doesn’t mean processed meats are as equally dangerous, just that the strength of […]

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