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California’s obsession with density limits housing growth
Morphing from a once-reasonable requirement that building permit applicants report on the “significant environmental impact” of their construction project and how they intend to mitigate that impact, CEQA is now a process-heavy, bureaucratic beast that delays projects for years and costs developers millions. Of all the ways California’s Legislature and state agencies are trying to elevate prices for everything in the state, CEQA is the worst. But the new laws and other CEQA-related bills California’s ...
MAHA Report: a failure on several levels
When the MAHA report was released, readers quickly noticed what were later referred to as “formatting errors.” Those errors included footnotes and citations that didn’t exist and were apparently the result of “hallucinations” by report writers relying on AI rather than doing the work to understand existing research. What is equally troubling about a report that cites sources that do not exist is forming conclusions that are illogical, rely on innuendo, and leap to predetermined ...
Now what, California?
President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is a grotesque monster to the renewable energy partisans. It phases out subsidies for wind and solar power, which have been around for decades and were extended by the previous administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. Industry sources have told the media that without taxpayer help, the renewables sector is in danger of a catastrophic collapse. What is California, which has bet its future on renewables, to do? Read the entire ...
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