Darrell Steinberg Puts Meat on CEQA Reform Bones – And It’s Tasty
Back in February Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg proposed a bare-bones framework for reforming the California Environmental Quality Act. SB 731 had to be filed by a legislative deadline, but...
View ArticleState Senate Unanimously Passes Steinberg’s CEQA Reform Bill
Yesterday the California Senate unanimously approved Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg’s bill to reform the California Environmental Quality Act, SB 731, which now goes to the Assembly for...
View ArticleAttorney General Argues HSR Is No Longer Subject To CEQA
Well this is definitely an interesting development. The AP’s Juliet Williams has the scoop: California’s high-speed rail project is no longer subject to the state’s rigorous environmental laws after a...
View ArticleIs This The Week CEQA Is Reformed?
For the last 12 months proposals to reform the California Environmental Quality Act have circulated in the state capitol in Sacramento. This week may be the week that a reform is finally approved by...
View ArticleAccuracy Matters for HSR’s Future
In today’s LA Times a USC public policy professor, Lisa Schweitzer, offers three suggestions for “getting California’s bullet train back on track”. It’s a worthwhile discussion to have, but her three...
View ArticleTraffic Impact May Get Some Reform Under Smaller CEQA Bill
One of the dramas at the end of the legislative session last week involved the fate of reform to the California Environmental Quality Act. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg substituted a new...
View ArticleAttorney General’s Office Argues HSR Should Be Exempt From CEQA
The California Attorney General’s Office is arguing in a new court filing that the project should be exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act – because Congressional Republicans got the...
View ArticleAnother EIR, Another Lawsuit
The case for reforming the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) rolls on, as Kern County votes to sue over the Fresno to Bakersfield EIR even though they were told winning was a longshot at...
View ArticleSurface Transportation Board Says It Preempts CEQA
Late last Friday the federal Surface Transportation Board voted 2-1 that its approval of the high speed rail project between Fresno and Bakersfield “categorically preempts” lawsuits filed against the...
View Article2014: The Best Year Ever for California HSR?
2014 was the best year for California high speed rail since at least 2008, when voters approved the Proposition 1A bonds. But there’s an argument it might have been even better than that. Let’s take a...
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