Government,
Environmental & Energy,
Construction
Aug. 11, 2023
GODOT arrives: CEQA reform at last?
Though years-long in the making, reforms to expedite judicial review of certain infrastructure projects has finally arrived.
Jeffrey P. Carlin
Counsel
Alston & Bird LLP
Jeffrey focuses on environmental and land use litigation as well as environmental permitting and compliance matters.
Calls for streamlining the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) procedural requirements are frequent but rarely heeded. Last month, however, Gov. Gavin Newsom managed to sign into law a five-bill package of substantive reforms focused on accelerating the construction of critical infrastructure projects.
Notable among these recent reforms, Senate Bill 149 will offer expedited judicial review for an array of qualifying energy, transpor...
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