A review law that any party can sue under grows in reach through litigation, so its burden falls on far more projects, housing and clean energy included, than its drafters meant it to cover.

Evidence 4 passages

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  he did not know what he was signing, and the legislature did not know what it was passing. The bill was thought to be modest.

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  That meant it applied to, well, almost anything that anyone might try to build in the state of California.

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  CEQA became a potent weapon against construction of new homes. Between 1972 and 1975, 29,000 proposed homes in the Bay Area, roughly a fifth of the region's total housing production at the time, were subject to environmental litigation and bigger rights.

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  Laws meant to ensure that government considers the consequences of its actions have made it too difficult for government to act consequentially.

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