DESERT ENVIRONMENT CONSER. ASSN. v. PUBLIC UTIL. COM.

Docket No. S.F. 22898.

8 Cal.3d 739 (1973)

505 P.2d 223

106 Cal. Rptr. 31

DESERT ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION et al., Petitioners, v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, Respondent; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 26, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John R. Phillips, Carlyle W. Hall, Jr., Brent N. Rushforth, Fredric P. Sutherland, Gregg William Hornaday, Leroy A. Simmons and Hornaday & Simmons for Petitioners.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Larry C. King, C. Foster Knight, Nicholas C. Yost and Norman N. Flette, Deputy Attorneys General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

John P. Mathis, Mary Moran Pajalich, J. Calvin Simpson, Hector Anninos, Sheldon Rosenthal and James J. Cherry for Respondent.

Rollin E. Woodbury, Robert J. Cahall, John R. Bury and William E. Marx for Real Party in Interest. Sherman Chickering, C. Hayden Ames, Donald J. Richardson, Jr., Edward P. Nelsen, Chickering & Gregory, Gordon Pearce, Frederick T. Searls, Malcolm H. Furbush and Stanley T. Skinner as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

Petitioners seek a writ of mandate to compel respondent Public Utilities Commission to commence immediate preparation of an environmental impact statement in connection with an application by real party in interest for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a proposed power plant.

The real party in interest, an investor-owned utility company, has requested the commission to approve a one and...

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