US EditionBill could spell the end of California's housing vs environment wars
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Bill could spell the end of California's housing vs environment wars
A home under construction in a Lennar housing development in San Diego. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters) For years California has been stuck in a recurring fight between legislators who want the state to turbocharge new home construction and legislators determined to defend a landmark environmental protection law. The final showdown in that long-standing battle may have just arrived. A new bill by Oakland Democratic Assemblymember Buffy Wicks woul…
The Epoch Times
The Constitution StudyStuck Under the Green Thumb of the California Environmental Quality Act
Commentary If Californians haven’t already, they’re bound to hear much more about CEQA—pronounced “SEE-kwuh” or the California Environmental Quality Act—in the coming days. Viewed as the Holy Grail of environmental policy, CEQA was signed into law by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan in 1970 in an attempt to allow public input into large government projects. However, a half-century later, numerous lawsuits and ever-evolving legislation have metastasized i…
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