CEQA Gutted!
For those who do not know, for 50 years, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), required most development projects to complete an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to identify impacts to our communities and the natural world around us. It also required community outreach so that your voice is heard. After all, those who live, work, and play in any community, know the issues better than developers who may not even live in California.
In June 2025, as part of the budget bill, the legislature added a trailer bill to the budget that removed many, many types of projects from CEQA requirements. These include certain types of energy generation, biotechnology manufacturing, chemical processing, and many others.
Once a project no longer has to comply with CEQA, then the project developer no longer has to mitigate for negative impacts. Mitigation can preserve and/or protect key pieces of land, limit hours of operation, reduce pollution, create traffic calming measure, situate projects outside of critical habitat, avoid areas of repeated extreme wildfires, keep polluting projects away from schools, and many other mitigations. For example, thanks to CEQA, Highway 52 does not go through the bottom of Marian Bear Natural Park where we we love to hike and bird watch, but to the side of the canyon thereby protecting the wetland corridor that is so critical in a dry climate like San Diego’s.
Please reach out to the following State Senators and Assemblymembers and ask them to support the SB 131 Cleanup Bill
Thank You Email
Send a thank you to State Senator Catherine Blakespear, and Assemblymember Tasha Boerner, who are supporting the Cleanup Bill efforts. Tese two amazing women represent the area of Lower Rose Creek. Here is text you can use in your email.
Thank you for support a cleanup bill for Senate Bill 131 during the current legislative session.
Please ask for SB 131 Cleanup Bill Support
Please contact the following elected officials and ask them to support a cleanup bill for SB131 during the current legislative session.
State Senator Steve Padilla, and Dr. Akilah Weber Pierson
State Assemblymembers David Alvarez; Dr. Darshana Patel, Dr. LaShae Sharp-Collins, Chris Ward, and Laurie Davies. Please email them with a message similar to this one.
Please support the SB 131 Cleanup bill be championed by San Diego’s own State Senator Catherine Blakespear and Assemblymember Tasha Boerner. Let’s show California that San Diego cares about clean air, clean water, and natural lands.
Thank you for engaging in community activism
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