LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT

摘要

Following much general concern over pollution and its effects on the environment, the State of California passed the Environmental Quality Act in 1970. This study examines the source of the act, the activity in the legislature prior to its passage, some of the cases which interpreted its applications, and the legislative responses to those cases. The evolution of the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) started with Friends of Mammoth v.