Sacramento Bee
One of Gavin Newsom’s first acts as governor was to start rebuilding California’s water system differently than his predecessor. Yet California’s regulatory system of analysis, permitting and litigation for big projects is leaving him nowhere close to an actual decision point, much less a podcast-worthy ribbon cutting, before his years in Sacramento are over.
Running out of options, Newsom is now turning to the state Legislature to ram through a set of water reforms in the name of “fast tracking” a key California water initiative, the controversial “tunnel” project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. This word choice, suggesting California does anything with speed, misses the broader point. …
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