Category: CEQA

California Lawmakers Deny Newsom’s Proposals to Reform Environmental Laws to Speed up Big Projects

June 2, 2023
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent attempt to bypass environmental rules to speed up construction for certain projects was denied by the Senate Budget Committee 3–0 on May 25. “The only way to achieve California’s world-leading climate goals is to build, build, build—faster,” Newsom said in a press release on May 19 announcing his plan. “This…

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Politicization Will Hamper California Infrastructure Improvements

May 24, 2023
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Commentary Even in wealthy areas, California’s infrastructure clearly is falling apart. You can feel it in your bones when you drive on the potholed roads in Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, and other cities where home values stretch on average above $1 million. Two developments show the state is advancing infrastructure improvements that also push forward…

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Reforming the California Environmental Quality Act

December 15, 2022
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Commentary Environmentalism became a national priority in the 1970s, and not a moment too soon. In California, for example, the legendary smog of the Los Angeles Basin was matched by barely breathable air in the Santa Clara Valley up north. The entire southern end of the San Francisco Bay was on track to be filled…

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California’s Environmental Laws Make It Harder to Build Homes, Litigator Says

December 4, 2022
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California is in a housing crisis and its environmental laws may be partially to blame, a litigator with the libertarian law firm the Pacific Legal Foundation told EpochTV’s California Insider. The state has tedious property regulations for building and zoning homes, as well as its California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the firm’s Litigation Director Larry…

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Bill Would Preclude California Universities & College Housing Construction from CEQA

February 23, 2022
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While the ruling to freeze enrollment at University of California–Berkeley is under appeal a bill was introduced Feb. 22 that would make California public universities’ housing developments exempt from environmental review. Senate Bill 886, introduced by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) would make University of California, California State University, and California Community College housing development…

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Bill Would Preclude California Universities and College Housing Construction from CEQA

February 23, 2022
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While the ruling to freeze enrollment at the University of California–Berkeley is under appeal, a bill was introduced on Feb. 22 that would make California public universities’ housing developments exempt from environmental review. Senate Bill 886, introduced by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) would make University of California, California State University, and California Community College…

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