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What New CEQA Reforms Aimed at Streamlining Housing Production Mean for the Environment

What New CEQA Reforms Aimed at Streamlining Housing Production Mean for the Environment

Update: 2025-08-18
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California has long prided itself on being a leader on environmental issues. Innovative laws like a carbon cap and trade program to limit greenhouse gas emissions and CEQA, which allows for environmental reviews of development projects, were a hallmark of that leadership. But a focus on cost of living and the need for more housing are putting into question how the state will balance environmental concerns with its desire for growth. In the first of a 2 day series looking at the impact of environmental reforms, we talk about what’s ahead for California’s environmental agenda.




Guests:


Wade Crowfoot, secretary, California Natural Resources Agency


Ethan Elkind, director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, UC Berkeley School of Law; host of the podcast, Climate Break

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What New CEQA Reforms Aimed at Streamlining Housing Production Mean for the Environment

What New CEQA Reforms Aimed at Streamlining Housing Production Mean for the Environment

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