California's GHG Law Complicates State Suit Over Local Transportation Plans

California's enactment earlier this month of SB 32, which codifies the state’s 2030 greenhouse gas target, could aid the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) in its state Supreme Court bid to overturn a lower court ruling that requires local governments to factor the state’s long-term GHG target into their land use plans for transportation, industry attorneys say. But their view is being challenged by a legal scholar and an attorney representing environmentalists in the pending litigation. SANDAG and its...