by Gary Lucks, JD, CPEA

Except for a series of significant water reforms, other new policy efforts were eclipsed by the fiscal and water problems. Several laws were nonetheless enacted to improve mobile source air pollution, advance the smart grid and plug-in hybrid technology, abolish the Integrated Waste Management Board (IWMB), add a new regulated greenhouse gas (GHG), and establish controversial exceptions to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)...