Environmental & Energy
Sep. 15, 2011
Strict environmental laws for thee, but not for me
Depending on who you are, California's strict environmental laws may not apply.
Gideon Kanner
Professor of Law Emeritus, Loyola Law School
USC Law School
Love 'em or hate 'em, environmental laws have often been the bane of California, causing unconscionable delays and wasting fortunes on endless studies and litigation by assorted NIMBYs trying to frustrate development. Back in the 1970s, Professor Bernard Frieden, head of the MIT Planning Department, wrote a book on that subject, entitled "The Environmental Protection Hustle" (MIT Press 1979) in which he demonstrated that California's environmental laws, as applied in the land-use context, ...
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