The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is California’s premier environmental and public process law. CEQA gives people the ability to voice their input on land use projects and requires applicants to do their fair share to protect California’s environment and our communities. By requiring discretionary land use projects to consider the environmental impacts, CEQA has helped promote sustainable development in California.

PCL helped to draft CEQA and get it passed. Each year, however, numerous legislative bills are introduced trying to bypass the CEQA process. PCL works relentlessly at the legislature to protect CEQA from such approaches and works with stakeholders across the state to keep CEQA as a vital tool for communities all while trying to update CEQA to be more efficient, effective, and predictable.