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Environmental

Sep. 20, 2013

Environmental law battle leaves neither side satisfied

Even as a long fight to reform the state's bedrock environmental law has resulted in some narrow modifications to the law, the forces battling over more significant changes appear undaunted.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Even as a long fight to reform the state's bedrock environmental law has resulted in some narrow modifications, the forces battling over more significant changes appear undaunted. Business interests that kickstarted the debate last year plan to continue their drumbeat for comprehensive overhaul of the 1970 law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). They complain it leads to costly project delays a...

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