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Government

Jan. 22, 2015

Legislature takes on CEQA reform, again

Three Democratic legislators have introduced a modest bill to help speed reviews and court fights involving the California Environmental Quality Act.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The Legislature has not lost its appetite for taking on reforms to the state's bedrock environmental law and is, for the fourth year in a row, floating bill language to alter the California Environmental Quality Act.


The bill, introduced late last week by three Democratic lawmakers, aims to cut time out of the lengthy CEQA review process by making more documents available electronically, accelera...

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