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===== Why reforming California’s bedrock environmental law is good for the environment ===== | |||
[https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/06/ceqa-environmental-law-reform/ by Nick Yost and Daniel Yost 5/6/25 CALL MATTERS] | |||
CEQA, as it’s colloquially known, embodies the proposition that you should “look before you leap” on issues that could have negative environmental or public health impacts. The law’s core legal principle holds that decisionmakers should know the environmental consequences of their actions before taking them. | |||
===== Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives ===== | ===== Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives ===== | ||
[https://apnews.com/article/epa-zeldin-pollution-rules-analysis-savings-health-0a289aec2507ed38d386680afdd0ea45 by Seth Borenstein 6/6/25 AP] | [https://apnews.com/article/epa-zeldin-pollution-rules-analysis-savings-health-0a289aec2507ed38d386680afdd0ea45 by Seth Borenstein 6/6/25 AP] | ||
Revision as of 17:40, 26 June 2025
Why reforming California’s bedrock environmental law is good for the environment
by Nick Yost and Daniel Yost 5/6/25 CALL MATTERS
CEQA, as it’s colloquially known, embodies the proposition that you should “look before you leap” on issues that could have negative environmental or public health impacts. The law’s core legal principle holds that decisionmakers should know the environmental consequences of their actions before taking them.
Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives
When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a wide-ranging rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would put a “dagger through the heart of climate-change religion” and introduce a “Golden Age” for the American economy.
Donald Trump's five most dangerous attacks on the environment
A report by the State Energy and Environmental Impact Center at New York University’s school of law published in March said the Trump administration had “set its sights on watering down or outright repealing a half-dozen health and environmental rules critical to the health and welfare of all Americans as well as the planet”.
