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Environmental

Aug. 25, 2012

Last-minute CEQA reform bill dead for now

An effort to reform the California Environmental Quality Act was set aside Thursday until next year, state legistlators announced Thursday.


By Paul Jones


Daily Journal Staff Writer


An effort to reform the California Environmental Quality Act was set aside Thursday when Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and the bill's sponsor, Sen. Michael Rubio, announced they would hold it until next year.


The act, known as CEQA, requires analysis and mitigation of development projects' impacts on the environment and has often come under criticism by business groups and others fo...

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