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The CEQA graveyard: Projects delayed by California’s powerful environmental law
CEQA challenges have paralyzed major housing and infrastructure projects around the Bay Area — including apartments located ...
A California environmental law makes it ‘too damn hard’ to build. But do Democrats have the will to reform it?
The law is a favorite tool among the trade unions, which threaten developers with it to extract concessions. Any CEQA reform ...
Fight or flight? Some California nonprofits won’t remain silent in face of Trump budget slashing
Some nonprofits are fighting back, including an L.A. provider that's leading a campaign to try to stop potential GOP cuts to ...
California physicians: Fossil fuel companies must pay for climate damages | Opinion
There should be consequences for companies that knowingly contribute to immeasurable environmental and public health harms.” ...
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A California environmental law makes it 'too damn hard' to build: But do Democrats have the will to reform it?
A coalition of trade unions, using the California Environmental Quality Act ... a report by the pro-housing group YIMBY Law found. For Cooper's project in West Oakland, using union labor would ...
FDA says it will phase out petroleum-based food dyes, authorize four natural color additives
The US Food and Drug Administration plans to phase out the use of petroleum-based synthetic dyes in the US food supply due to ...
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Fight intensifies over bill by former Edison executive to gut rooftop solar credits
Calderon worked for Southern California Edison and its parent ... including the Sierra Club and the Environmental Working Group, which point out that the state has long said the solar contracts ...