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Environmental

Jul. 26, 2014

California fends off challenge to high speed rail project

The 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that the state complied with CEQA when it chose the train's route between San Francisco and the Central Valley.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


In a win for California's high speed rail project, a state appellate court ruled Thursday that the state did an adequate environmental review of its decision to route the train through the wealthy suburbs south of San Francisco on its way to the Central Valley.


But the court stopped short of agreeing with the state's assertion that the entire high speed rail project should be exempted from rev...

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