Yesterday, my colleagues Thomas Fuller, Jennifer Medina and Conor Dougherty took a hard look at the future of America’s infrastructure projects, like California’s high-speed rail. More specifically: Are projects that big even possible anymore, given the cost and regulation? In California, that regulation has reached notoriously byzantine heights and is epitomized in four letters: C.E.Q.A. For those trying to carry out such projects in California, nothing is more daunting than the California Environmental Quality Act, or C.E.Q.A. But lawsuits filed under the environmental quality act have often taken aim at just such projects.

Source: New York Times February 26, 2019 14:10 UTC