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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.
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed an executive order suspending parts of the Coastal Act and the California Environmental Quality Act to aid homeowners rebuilding after losses in last week's ...
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 ...
The California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code Sec. 21000, et seq. [28]) (CEQA) has far more lenient standing requirements than the federal National Environmental Policy Act, with the result that it is much easier for California landowners to sue each other than comparable landowners in other states. [29]
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 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 Swiss cheese approach to dealing with California's landmark environmental quality law has created huge inequities and slowed or stopped development for reasons that have nothing to do with ...
The California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) is a state cabinet-level agency within the government of California.The mission of CalEPA is to restore, protect and enhance the environment, to ensure public health, environmental quality and economic vitality.