Environmental & Energy
May 13, 2024
CEQA streamlining works, lawyers say. But can California's courts keep up?
As the number of projects subject to expedited judicial review increases it could create a "traffic jam" in the courts, one attorney says.
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It’s nearly a year since California Senate Bill 149, which aims to expedite judicial review of major infrastructure projects, passed the state legislature. Attorneys say the measure has mostly succeeded in its goal of speeding up review under the notoriously cumbersome California Environmental Quality Act, but some have expressed concerns that the courts may have trouble keeping up.
“It’s not a matter of the law not being well written ...
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