California needs more housing and infrastructure, but Proposition 45 goes too far, write environmental and conservation leaders Sarah Newkirk, Chris Wilmers and Noelle Chambers. The measure would weaken CEQA’s environmental protections, limit public and tribal input and make it harder for courts to overturn flawed project approvals, they write. They insist that recent reforms need time to work and that building faster shouldn’t mean ignoring wildfire risks, wildlife habitat or sacred sites. Abundance, they write, also means protecting what makes California worth living in.
