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California rolls back CEQA in bipartisan win for abundance agenda 

July 01, 2025 | By SAM RUTZICK

California has been having a rough year: In a short six months it was hit with wildfires, urban unrest, and even some small earthquakes. But this week the Golden State made a decision that should change its luck: It reformed its most powerful environmental regulation, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), to ease the way for new constru ...

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Supreme Court ends the abuse of NEPA—and encourages the abundance agenda

June 02, 2025 | By SAM RUTZICK

Fifty-five years ago, Congress passed and President Richard Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) into law. For a number of infrastructure projects that are built, funded, or approved by the federal government, NEPA requires federal agencies to prepare an environmental impact statement, or EIS. That EIS is essentially a public r ...