University of California, Berkeley researchers in 1995 conducted an exhaustive survey of the California Environmental Quality Act and declared that the landmark environmental law "could be improved" by toughening its standards and expanding regulatory oversight. The researchers mainly feared that CEQA doesn't do enough to protect the environment.
One might expect that myopic conclusion from university researchers, but the UC Berkeley administration has recently gotten an eye-opening lesson about of how this heavy-handed environmental regulation works in the real world.
