Support SB 954 with strong limits on toxic industry near neighborhoods!
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Last year California lawmakers approved a far-reaching policy change that reshaped the state’s environmental review system with little warning and even less public discussion. Folded quietly into the budget, they carved out a sweeping exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for a broadly defined category labeled “advanced manufacturing.”
This is the first time the Legislature has so broadly exempted whole classes of industrial, often polluting, development from California’s bedrock environmental law.
Senate Bill 954 restores essential public health and environmental safeguards removed last year under SB 131. The bill would safeguard clean water, ensure stronger protections from toxic chemicals near homes and schools, and protect taxpayers from the long-term costs of pollution and environmental damage. Now we need lawmakers like Senator Richardson to act.
Take action today to tell Senator Laura Richardson to pass SB 954!
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