State Senate Unanimously Passes Legislation To Modernize State Environmental Quality Act

摘要

The California Senate has passed legislation (S.B. 731) to streamline the review process for clean energy and other development projects under the California Environmental Quality Act. Approved May 29 on a 39-0 vote, the bill now heads to the Assembly. Introduced by Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg (D) in April, the legislation seeks to update CEQA, a 1970 statute many lawmakers and business groups say is outdated and often abused to block development projects.