Overview of California Environmental Regulations

Online

The web of environmental laws and regulations in California is famously complex and ever evolving. Gain a comprehensive overview of the California regulatory landscape and learn how to navigate the key legal and regulatory requirements for implementing your projects. This online course provides a practical understanding of federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations and how these requirements interact throughout the project development stage. Through pre-recorded lectures and live instruction, you’ll cover the regulatory process from site identification to implementation, including entitlements and construction, and explore potential compliance challenges through a discussion of case studies. By the end of this course, you will have gained an understanding of the relationships between various environmental process requirements, become familiar with key agencies, and learned how to anticipate potential challenges and identify strategies for overcoming process hurdles.

This course is designed for environmental planners and managers, engineers and operations professionals in public works or similar roles, and other professionals in land and infrastructure management, real estate development and environmental management.

Learning Outcomes

  • Accurately integrate the costs and schedule for navigating the environmental process into project planning
  • Assess environmental risks as part of initial project planning
  • Identify when a project may require detailed environmental review and permitting

Skills You Will Gain

  • Environmental planning
  • Environmental permitting
  • Project planning
CEUs
0.65
Section Number
254LAN372
Instruction Method
Online class

Section Notes

This is an online, remote learning course, which consists of 6.5 hours of content and curriculum that is taught with pre-recorded lectures as well all mandatory live Zoom session with the instructor(s). Pre-recorded lectures and live sessions are accessed via our Canvas learning system and Zoom. This course is the same length as a standard 1 day, in-person course, please be sure to plan your schedule accordingly. 

This course is open April 6 - April 10, with a live session on April 9, 2:00PM-4:00PM PT. 

Attendance of the live session is mandatory to receive credit for this course. 

We allow registration through the 12:00 PM PST (noon) on the first day of the course. We cannot extend course access beyond 11:59 PM on last day of class, so students pursuing a late enrollment acknowledge that they will have less time to complete the materials. Please contact the course representative with any questions.

Refund Deadline: 3/30/2026.  Refunds and/or enrollment transfers will not be approved after this date. 

Enrollment Policies

Drop requests (withdraw with a refund) will be approved, less a $30 processing fee, if the request is received seven calendar days before the course begins. Click here to view complete enrollment policy information including details on withdrawals and transfers.

Refund Deadline: 3/30/2026. Refunds and/or enrollment transfers will not be approved after this date.