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The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA / ˈ s iː. k w ə /) is a California statute passed in 1970 and signed in to law by then-governor Ronald Reagan, [1] [2] shortly after the United States federal government passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to institute a statewide policy of environmental protection.
The California Environmental Quality Act, known as CEQA, requires local and state agencies to identify and mitigate environmental impacts of their work. The California Coastal Act lays out ...
Requirements for building permits and reviews in the California Environmental Quality Act and the California Coastal Act — often considered onerous by developers — will be eased for victims of ...
In particular, several lawsuits have been filed against agencies for failure to analyze GHG emissions generated by projects subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Court decisions prior to the 2010 revisions to the CEQA guidelines gave early insights as to how CEQA would be used as a vehicle to identify and mitigate GHG ...
The act requires a review of potential alternatives, an identification of impacts and ways to lessen those impacts when feasible. For a project with any controversy, the environmental review ...
In what they said was a cost-saving measure, Democrats rushed a bill to exempt a $1.1-billion renovation of the state Capitol from the California Environmental Quality Act — a move they hope ...
From inception in the mid-1970s the organization has been closely linked with the upkeep of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), California being one of the first states to adopt a comprehensive law to govern the environmental review of public policy and project review.
On Sunday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to suspend portions of the California Environmental Quality Act and the California Coastal Act for fire victims planning to start over with ...