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Administrative/Regulatory

Jun. 11, 2015

Governor seeks CEQA exemption as environmentalists cry foul

As the state Legislature and Brown administration hammer out a budget deal, environmental groups are raising concern about trailer bill language they claim creates too broad an exemption from the state's bedrock environmental law.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


As state budget negotiations heat up and the punishing drought wears on, a new fight
is brewing over the reach of California's bedrock environmental law to projects aimed
at increasing water supply.


Among the more than 100 so-called trailer bills attached to Governor Jerry Brown's
proposed budget is a measure...

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