| TAKE ACTION – Help Stop SB 607! An Undermining of California’s Environmental Bill of Rights Senator Scott Wiener has a bill before the California Legislature (SB 607) that threatens to undermine California’s most significant environmental law. The California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, is a bedrock law that ensures that harm to the natural world is fully accounted for when decisions about proposed developments are made. Now, using the deception of helping infill housing, SB 607 would severely limit or even eliminate CEQA review for development affecting wildlife. The bill weakens environmental review requirements for nearly all private and government development proposals, including freeways, airports, dams, railyards, shopping centers, sports complexes, power plants, prisons, and mining operations. Without appropriate review, how can we know the impacts on our community, air, and water of proposed development projects? Please contact your legislator and ask them to vote NO on Senate Bill 607. Click here to find your Senator. Enter your address and then click on the locate button. Follow the links on the form to your Senator’s webpage and click on their contact tab. You can call their district office and/or use their online contact form and ask them to: Oppose SB 607 (Wiener), which weakens environmental protections for nearly all private and government projects in California. SB 607 applies to most new development and would result in less transparent environmental review, agency confusion, and more litigation. CEQA acts as an environmental bill of rights, giving Californians access to critical information that affects their communities. At a time when environmental protections, especially those at the federal level, are under assault, California environmental laws must stay intact. For further details about the problems with SB 607, please click here. To view the sign-on letter in opposition to SB 607 (signed by over 100 California environmental groups, including the Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust please click here. Thank you for doing your part to protect our planet. |