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  2. California Environmental Quality Act - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008

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    SB 375 establishes 'California Environmental Quality Act' (CEQA), a statute that mandates state and local agencies to ascertain the environmental effects of their actions and to mitigate them if possible, which serves to streamline benefits for projects that are consistent with this strategy.

  4. Opinion: Reform CEQA instead of punching holes in it

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    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 ...

  5. Phase I environmental site assessment - Wikipedia

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    Standards for performing a Phase I site assessment have been promulgated by the US EPA [1] and are based in part on ASTM in Standard E1527-13. [ 2 ] If a site is considered contaminated, a Phase II environmental site assessment may be conducted, ASTM test E1903, a more detailed investigation involving chemical analysis for hazardous substances ...

  6. Controversial Capitol annex project would be exempt from ...

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    Opponents of the $1.1 billion project have successfully delayed the project on environmental and public review grounds. Controversial Capitol annex project would be exempt from environmental law ...

  7. Climate change litigation and the California Environmental ...

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    However, the CEQA Guidelines were revised on December 30, 2009, requiring projects subject to CEQA consider potential environmental effects caused by GHG emissions. [Note 1] [7] Section 15064.4 provides guidance for determining the significance of GHG emissions, but does not establish explicit thresholds. Section 15126.4(c) suggests general ...

  8. Streamlining theory - Wikipedia

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    [2] Some mechanisms that are thought to underlie genome streamlining include deletion bias and purifying selection. [1] Deletion bias is the phenomenon in bacterial genomes where the rate of DNA loss is naturally higher than the rate of DNA acquisition. [2] [7] This is a passive process that simply results from the difference in these two rates ...

  9. CD1 - Wikipedia

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    CD1 (cluster of differentiation 1) is a family of glycoproteins expressed on the surface of various human antigen-presenting cells.CD1 glycoproteins are structurally related to the class I MHC molecules, however, in contrast to MHC class 1 proteins, they present lipids, glycolipids and small molecules antigens, from both endogenous and pathogenic proteins, to T cells and activate an immune ...