Perspective
Jul. 31, 2009
Look Both Ways
California regulators have to scramble to reconcile the forward-looking CEQA and the backword-looking AB 32, write Beth S. Dorris and Jonathan Franz.
The California Environmental Quality Act, widely known as CEQA, requires public agencies in the state to disclose the significant environmental impacts of proposed projects such as housing developments and new roads, and to mitigate those significant impacts to the extent feasible. CEQA focuses on potential future impacts, above and beyond current "baseline" conditions. It does not require mitigation of past ...
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