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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.
Litigation related to climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has become increasingly common in federal and state courts. [1] Following adoption of the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) and publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), additional pressure was placed on California public agencies to evaluate potential ...
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 ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed an executive order suspending parts of the Coastal Act and the California Environmental Quality Act to aid ... CEQA was signed into law by then-Gov. Ronald ...
Democrats passed a law to expedite construction at the California Capitol by exempting a large renovation project from the environmental law known as CEQA.
This involves the development of an environmental impact report (EIR) under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and subsequently, an environmental impact statement (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The Draft EIR will evaluate project alternatives representing a range of rail transit modes, alignments, and ...
Our state’s housing crisis is a big part of the explanation, and one cause of the crisis is the perversion of a well-intentioned 1970 law, the California Environmental Quality Act, known as CEQA.
Many states have professional registrations which are applicable to the preparers of Phase I ESAs; for example, the state of California had a registration entitled "California Registered Environmental Assessor Class I or Class II" until July 2012, when it removed this REA certification program due to budget cuts. [8]