California Attorney General Xavier Becerra – standing steps from the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego – said Wednesday he and the California Coastal Commission have sued the federal government for circumventing state and federal environmental laws in order to speed up construction of the border wall.
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California Coastal Commission leaders expressed concern Wednesday over what they anticipate to be a knock-down, drag-out fight between coastal homeowners and local governments as sea-level rise poses an imminent threat to development on California’s coast.
Read moreThe California Coastal Commission took steps to close the only remaining coastal sand mine in the United States during its meeting on Thursday.
Read moreCoastal homeowners in California can’t build their seawalls and challenge them too, as the state’s high court ruled Thursday homeowners lost the right to challenge conditions placed on a seawall permit after they’d already built the $1 million project.
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The California Coastal Commission has reached a tentative settlement with a sand mining company that would lead to the shuttering of a controversial sand-removal operation that residents say is eroding the coast of Monterey Bay.
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The California Coastal Commission narrowly denied the renewal of a permit for an oyster farm to operate in Humboldt Bay in the northwestern tip of California.
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Justices with California’s Supreme Court recently heard arguments in a case that could set precedent for homeowners along the state’s pricey – and crumbling – coast.
Read moreA Superior Court judge could rule by Friday on whether U2 guitarist The Edge can break ground on a $79 million, five-home project on 151 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains, or whether it needs more environmental review.
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The California Supreme Court unanimously rejected the environmental impact report prepared by the city of Newport Beach in approving a controversial mixed-use development on 401 acres of ecologically sensitive coastline known as Banning Ranch.
Read moreThe California Coastal Commission flexed its enforcement muscles Thursday and fined an upscale beachfront restaurant $500,000 for blocking public access to a popular San Mateo beach, and asked its staff to crack down on repeat violators of the Coastal Act.
Read moreThe California Coastal Commission on Wednesday approved a $30 million project to renovate the remaining 17 cottages at historic Crystal Cove State Park as affordable overnight cabins for visitors.
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After a year of controversy, the California Coastal Commission hired its acting executive director Jack Ainsworth as its full-time leader, to succeed the popular Charles Lester, whom the commission fired a year ago.
Read moreThe plan to turn an oil field on the Southern California coast into a housing project – as proposed to the California Coastal Commission last year – is effectively dead, but some commissioners only agreed to kill with an eye toward resurrecting a different version down the road.
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The California Coastal Commission has assured the state it has begun implementing recommendations in the state’s finance audit late last year that found accounting troubles at the agency.
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Commissioners with the California Coastal Commission kicked off their first meeting of the year Wednesday by questioning the commission’s apparent money problems which were highlighted in a recent finance audit by the state Department of Finance.
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A finance audit of the California Coastal Commission’s money management released Friday shows the powerful agency lacks a centralized way for billing and collecting money, a problem it was advised to fix to address potential shortfalls in the future.
Read moreThree months after halting a contentious 895-home development project on Southern California’s largest swath of undeveloped coastal wetland, state regulators on Friday approved an application to overhaul and expand an oilfield at the disputed site.
Read moreThe California Coastal Commission put the city of Malibu on notice regarding its residents’ penchant for going to great lengths to keep the public away from beaches that belong to the people of California.
Read moreThe California Coastal Commission will enter 2017 with a leadership shakeup, tapping lawyer Dayna Bochco to chair its 12-member decision-making body.
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