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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.
While the CEQA Guidelines do not specify a specific numeric threshold for significance, they provide lead agencies the discretion to select their own threshold. [7] The CEQA Guidelines identify categories of mitigation for GHG emissions. Decisions made by the Court of Appeals have clarified the statue with the following findings. [44]
Through the Executive Order No. 91, CEQR was established in New York City and so was the creation of a two co-lead agency system that would handle most of the environmental review functions. [3] However, in 1991 the two co-lead agency system was replaced by a new system of lead agencies, where City agencies would act as the lead agency to any ...
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 ...
Opponents of the $1.1 billion project have successfully delayed the project on environmental and public review grounds.
Any piece of real estate can be the subject of a Phase I ESA. In the United States, an environmental site assessment is a report prepared for a real estate holding that identifies potential or existing environmental contamination liabilities.
The Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR), UK Statutory Instrument SI 2004 No. 3391, provide a statutory right of access to environmental information held by UK public authorities. The regulations came into force on 1 January 2005. [ 1 ]
Writ petitions can also be filed with a superior court in order to compel an administrative agency or other entity, public or private, to perform a duty required by law. Although these petitions can be filed with the court of appeal or Supreme Court in the first instance, they are usually summarily denied without prejudice. [33]