Check out the Hills For Everyone June E-Newsletter which covers CEQA, fire safety in Chino Hills State Park, managed public access to Tres Hermanos, and mesopredators (specifically opossums). View the E-Newsletter.
Claire Schlotterbeck penned this opinion piece for the Voice of OC about the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). #CEQA is under attack. With protections rolled back our parks, quality of life, and plants/animals will suffer. View the Op Ed.
In this November edition of the HFE E-Newsletter we relay the death of Bruce Douglas, the addition of a new board member, and how the California Environmental Quality Act works. View the Hills For Everyone E-Newsletter.
Here is another letter to the editor that you may not have seen in response to the September 4 OC Register article. It was submitted by Brea resident Eric Johnson. The boogeyman in this battle over Esperanza Hills is not the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Very few lawsuits are actually filed under CEQA: less than 1% of projects subject to CEQA review are actually challenged in court. To say that CEQA stops projects is flat out wrong. The law … Read More
The California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA (pronounced see-quah), is a statue that requires state and local agencies to identify the significant environmental impacts of proposed projects, and to avoid or mitigate those impacts, if feasible. It also requires public comments/testimony on projects during the environmental review process. This landmark environmental law passed in 1970 and was signed into law by Governor Ronald Reagan.