Groups appeal court decision on Tahoe Regional Plan Update

Plaintiffs’ Opening Brief In Support Of Motion For Summary Judgment

Update strips protections, increasing potential for water and air pollution

Signature on SB630 signs away 40 years of environmental protections

Any day now, the fate of Lake Tahoe’s famed blue waters could be drastically compromised.

Valuable environmental protections for the lake may be lost

Complaint For Declaratory And Injunctive Relief; And Related Pendant State Law Claims

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency transferred its legal duty of lake protection to local authorities

Local jurisdictions given authority to approve commercial development

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency must examine impact of all illegal buoys already in use

Decisive victory ensures development plans will be held to high standard

Construction would imperil water and air quality, non-motorized recreation, and public shoreline access

Preliminary Injunction filing on Tahoe Shorezone plan.

Straddling the border of California and Nevada, Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America and is one of two EPA-designated “Outstanding National Resources Waters” in California. Due to increasing human activities and development, the lake’s famed water clarity, which once measured 100 feet deep, has declined 30% since 1968; summer clarity continues…

Lawsuit in federal district court to force environmental review of a shoreline development plan for Lake Tahoe.

Significant development of the Lake Tahoe shoreline threatens lake’s clarity, lawsuit filed