To many observers hoping for renewed progress toward reform of California’s keystone environmental law the California Environmental Quality Act Senator Michael Rubio’s sudden resignation from the state Legislature on Feb. 22 was something of a shock. Rubio had been chair of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee and was widely seen as a key power broker in efforts backed by Governor Jerry Brown to push through comprehensive reform of the decades-old law.
CEQA is California’s principal environmental review statute, requiring developers to go through a lengthy public process to analyze the potential environmental impacts of proposed projects and assess how those impacts might be mitigated. While almost everyone (at least publicly) agrees that any reforms should preserve CEQA’s role in protecting the environment, critics take aim at how the law is used by labor groups to extract concessions from employers, by businesses as a sword to undermine their competition’s efforts, and by a host of other groups seeking to stop or delay developments for reasons other than environmental protection.
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