California Environmental Quality Act Lawsuits and California's Housing Crisis

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) continues to play a vital role in assuring that our state and local agencies carefully evaluate, disclose, and avoid or reduce the potentially adverse environmental consequences of their actions. In addition, CEQA ensures that agencies consider and respond to public and agency comments on these environmental issues, and accept the responsibility of disclosing when, even after mitigating adverse impacts, such actions would have significant unavoidable adverse impacts on the environment.

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