Energy Law
Apr. 28, 2011
State's Green Energy Mandate Lifts Effort to Reform CEQA Rules
Ask nearly any land-use lawyer in California and they’ll tell you without hesitation: developing a project in California is more complex and presents more uncertainty than it does in any other state. Many point to the California Environmental Quality Act as the source of project setbacks. Now business interests are renewing their push to reform CEQA amid the state's new renewable energy mandate.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Ask nearly any land-use lawyer in California and they'll tell you without hesitation: developing a project in California is more complex and presents more uncertainty than it does in any other state.
Many point to the California Environmental Quality Act as the source of project setbacks. But calls to reform the 40-year-old law, which have pitted business leaders against environmental groups ...
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