Could L.A. Stadium Project Skirt Environmental Laws?

Jul 30, 2010

What does the California budget process have to do with a new NFL stadium in downtown Los Angeles? Quite a lot, really.

A detailed column written by two environmental-law experts in today's edition of The Sacramento Bee breaks down talk on the political street that stadium proponents are pressing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to exempt the stadium project from the California Environmental Quality Act - the state's "most fundamental and effective environmental law" - as part of any budget deal.

Click here to read what they have to say.

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