CEQA

Known as CEQA, this landmark environmental protection law requires an environmental impact report and effective measures to mitigate environmental harm for any project that may have a significant effect on the environment.

Joel Reynolds: Handle CEQA With Care Joel Reynolds 2011

Known as CEQA, this landmark environmental protection law requires an environmental impact report and effective measures to mitigate environmental harm for any project that may have a significant effect on the environment.

Joel Reynolds: Handle CEQA With Care Joel Reynolds 2011

Whether the CEQA is the best vehicle for serving as a watchdog for people and the environment is debatable -- but pushing it aside reveals the top priority for Schwarzenegger.

Tri Robinson: The Vision to Stay Green 2009

If signed by the governor, AB900 would allow projects costing $100 million or more to request streamlined judicial review under the California Environmental Quality Act, known as CEQA.

SFGate: Top News Stories pfimrite@sfchronicle.com (Marisa Lagos 2011

If signed by the governor, AB900 would allow projects costing $100 million or more to request streamlined judicial review under the California Environmental Quality Act, known as CEQA.

SFGate: Top News Stories pfimrite@sfchronicle.com (Marisa Lagos 2011

Whether the CEQA is the best vehicle for serving as a watchdog for people and the environment is debatable -- but pushing it aside reveals the top priority for Schwarzenegger.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

CEQA derailed the incinerator in Vernon, the commercial center in Richmond, the oil drilling on Santa Monica Bay, the massive golf resort in Potrero Valley, and the warehouses along the LA River, where the sites were then acquired for state parkland.

Joel Reynolds: Handle CEQA With Care Joel Reynolds 2011

In addressing these and countless projects like them up and down the state, Californians have relied on CEQA for over 40 years to protect their communities and our natural resources from environmentally uninformed government decisions -- decisions that needlessly pollute our air, contaminate our water, endanger our children's health, despoil our wild lands, and undermine the quality of our lives.

Joel Reynolds: Handle CEQA With Care Joel Reynolds 2011

CEQA has been called "a bill of rights for an environmental democracy," and development is better, smarter, and greener because of it.

Joel Reynolds: Handle CEQA With Care Joel Reynolds 2011

CEQA isn't perfect, but it has served Californians well by providing communities a line of self-defense when elected officials become cheerleaders for, not regulators of, significant projects.

Joel Reynolds: Handle CEQA With Care Joel Reynolds 2011