Blog: Governor Newsom suspends environmental permitting for certain flood risk mitigation activities
On August 4, 2023, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-10-23, the latest in a series of executive orders addressing the impacts of the series of atmospheric rivers that caused a State of Emergency in California in late 2022 and early 2023. Order N-10-23 suspends several statutes, regulations, and permitting criteria for certain activities to mitigate ongoing flood risk in several regions of the state.