California: 2-faced Schwarzenegger decides ecological concerns are irrelevant
…Schwarzenegger is proposing to largely exempt 10 highway projects
from the California Environmental Quality Act, a 1970 law requiring
review of big projects and efforts to offset any deleterious effects
on the surroundings…
Schwarzenegger is proposing that the California
Department of Transportation forge ahead with some construction
projects that are tied up in court over environmental issues. One is a
$165-million carpool-lane expansion on U.S. 50 in Sacramento that a
judge has delayed because of the amount of greenhouse gas emissions it
could generate, among other concerns. Protections would also be lifted
on a freeway-widening project through an ecologically sensitive area
of coastal San Diego County and on a controversial plan to drill a
tunnel into the Berkeley Hills. And Schwarzenegger wants to empower a
panel of his appointees to waive environmental rules on other
projects. http://rare-earth-news.blogspot.com/2009/01/schwarzeneggers-effort-to-expedite-10.html
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