Legal Opinion
Communities for a Better Environment v. South Coast Air Quality Management District
California Supreme Court
Decided March 15, 2010No. S161190PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WERDEGAR, J.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Pub. Resources Code, § 21000 et seq.) 1 requires a public agency to prepare an environmental impact report (FIR) only on projects that may have significant environmental effects (§§ 21100, subd. (a), 21151, subd. (a)). To decide whether a given project’s environmental effects are likely to be significant, the agency must use some measure of the environment’s state absent the project, a measure sometimes referred to as the “baseline” for environmental analysis. According to an administrative guideline for CEQA’s application,…
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