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Debate Grows Over Whether CEQA Reform Threatens Environmental Law
Original: Existential Threat to CEQA or Just Building Stuff We Need Faster?
California's landmark environmental review law, CEQA, is at the center of a heated debate. Critics of the current system argue it slows down badly needed housing, transit and clean energy projects, while defenders warn that proposed exemptions and fast-tracks amount to an existential threat to environmental protections. The question dividing planners, builders and environmentalists is whether reform means building what the state needs faster, or gutting safeguards.
Why now: Ongoing efforts to streamline or weaken CEQA have reignited a long-running fight over housing, infrastructure and environmental protection in California.
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