California Voters Reject Prop 45, Preserving Environmental Review Process

Measure to overhaul California's bedrock environmental law fails

California voters have rejected an attempt to overhaul and roll back decades-old environmental rules to make it easier to build highways, housing, and clean energy projects. Known as Proposition 45, the proposed changes to California’s Environmental Quality Act failed with 55.9% of voters rejecting the measure, with 77% of the votes in as of Monday […]

Californians Vote NO on Prop 45 in a Rebuke of Trump’s Anti-Environment Agenda

Yesterday, Californians voted against the industry backed Proposition 45, which would have rolled back bedrock California environmental law, making it easier to build polluting facilities near places we live, play and learn. If passed, Big Tech could have used Prop 45 to try and push through an explosion of data centers across the state at […] The post Californians Vote NO on Prop 45 in a Rebuke of Trump’s Anti-Environment Agenda appeared first …

Prop. 45, measure to change California's environmental review, rejected by voters, AP projects

By Tim Fang A ballot measure that would have changed California environmental review process for construction has been rejected by voters, AP projects. The measure, Proposition 45, would have made amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, the landmark 1970 state law requiring agencies to evaluate a project’s potential impacts to the environment

California voters reject Prop 45, preserving environmental review process

Environmental groups are celebrating the defeat, saying the measure would have taken away their ability to raise concerns about projects in their communities.

Proposition 45 defeated, would have streamlined landmark environmental law to speed housing, other development

Chamber of Commerce-backed measure aimed to cut red tape and lawsuits; environmental groups said it went too far

California Rejects Construction Measure, Approves Billions for Housing

California voters rejected Proposition 45, a ballot measure that would have streamlined environmental reviews for housing, infrastructure and other development projects, the Associated Press projected. Backed by the California Chamber of Commerce and major developers, the measure sought to accelerate construction by imposing tighter deadlines on environmental reviews and legal challenges under the California Environmental […]