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California Environmental Quality Act: environmental impact reports: coal handling, storage, and export.

Sent for signature: it can still change before the session ends.

CA AB 40 · Assembly Bill · 2025–2026

Stage
Sent for signature
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Assembly
Sponsors
8
Latest action
Sep 8, 2026

What it does

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on…

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Where it stands

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Current step)

    Sent for signature · Sep 8, 2026

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