California’s Environmental Quality Act cleanup bill withdrawn, delaying fix to industrial exemptions

Assembly Bill 1083 would have rolled back some of the exemptions that the governor and the Legislature passed in June with Senate Bill 131. The exemptions to CEQA, a law that requires public agencies to identify and mitigate significant environmental impacts from their proposed projects, allowed “advanced manufacturing” projects to forgo environmental review.

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