California Rejects Last Minute Plays to Side-Step Environmental Review
Though not every bill ended the way environmentalists had hoped, but due to a growing coalition of groups there is a major victory. Not one single CEQA exemption bill was passed this year. One bill, the Wal-Mart bill, was moved to inactive before the gavel came down that closed the session.
Chevron Tries Sacramento End-Run Around CEQA
A court ruled Chevron's environmental impact was flawed after a lawsuit proved the oil giant said one thing in the report, but told Wall Street something different. Now Chevron is trying to get a legislative exemption from CEQA. The League and scores of other environmental groups oppose the exemption.
Legislature Delays Water Bond until 2012
Legislative leaders scrambled for a two-thirds vote to remove Proposition 18 from "the jaws of almost certain death." PCL's Traci Sheehan commented that water districts, peripheral canal supporters, and property owners supported the Proposition, while nearly every newspaper Editorial board opposed the boondoggle.
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