Items Tagged with 'streamlining CEQA reviews and permitting'

California farm organizations are divided over a new bill that is proposing to loosen the penalties for ending Williamson Act conservation easements to streamline the deployment of large-scale solar development on retired farmland.

The Sites Reservoir Project became the first infrastructure proposal to benefit from Gov. Newsom’s bill on streamlining judicial reviews, and environmental groups are not happy about it.

California growers can expect no major changes. But bureaucratic delays and significant regulatory uncertainty could hamper rural infrastructure projects that support agriculture.

Parts of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposals for streamlining infrastructure projects drew kickback from progressive lawmakers during an informational hearing this week.

Newsom announced a raft of bills to streamline infrastructure projects and signed an order tasking agencies with accelerating clean energy projects.