California Government Code ARTICLE 8 - Environmental Actions

• Section 12600.
  The Legislature finds and declares as follows:(a) It is the policy of this state to conserve, protect, and enhance its environment. It is the policy of...
• Section 12601.
  The provisions of this article are not exclusive, and the remedies provided for in this article shall be in addition to any other remedies provided...
• Section 12602.
  If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of the chapter...
• Section 12603.
  This article shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes.(Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1518.)
• Section 12604.
  As used in this article, “person” includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, company, district, county, city and county,...
• Section 12605.
  As used in this article, “natural resource” includes land, water, air, minerals, vegetation, wildlife, silence, historic or aesthetic sites, or any other natural resource which,...
• Section 12606.
  The Attorney General shall be permitted to intervene in any judicial or administrative proceeding in which facts are alleged concerning pollution or adverse environmental effects...
• Section 12607.
  The Attorney General may maintain an action for equitable relief in the name of the people of the State of California against any person for...
• Section 12608.
  In any action maintained under Section 12607, the defendant may also show, by way of an affirmative defense, that there is no more feasible and...
• Section 12609.
  Any action brought pursuant to Section 12607 to review, set aside, void or annul any decision in any zoning matter of an administrative body or...
• Section 12610.
  In granting temporary and permanent equitable relief, the court may impose such conditions upon the defendant as are required to protect the natural resources of...
• Section 12611.
  (a) Whenever proceedings before an administrative agency are pending or available to determine the legality of the defendants’ conduct, program, or product, the court shall stay...
• Section 12612.
  (a) In any administrative, licensing, or other such proceeding or in any proceeding for judicial review thereof which is made available by law, the Attorney General...

Last modified: October 22, 2018