A ballot measure that would overhaul one of California’s most powerful and controversial environmental laws is drawing strong support less than three months before voters begin casting ballots in the statewide November election.
Proposition 45, which would make substantial changes to the California Environmental Quality Act, is backed by 73% of likely voters, with 24% opposed and 4% undecided, according to a poll released by the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research group in San Francisco.
If approved by a majority of voters, the measure would set a 365-day limit on environmental reviews for a range of projects.
Those include new reservoirs, desalination plants, forest thinning to reduce wildfire risk, apartments, housing subdivisions, roads, bridges, public transit, hospitals, solar farms, wind farms and battery storage facilities.