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California Gov. Jerry Brown and the California Chamber of Commerce shared some of the same opinions during addresses to the 88th annual Sacramento Host Breakfast Wednesday in Sacramento.

Does California’s signature environmental law protect the state’s air, water and wilderness by acting as a check on runaway projects proposed by overzealous developers? Or does it encourage baseless lawsuits that unfairly delay and even derail worthwhile projects that could provide badly needed jobs and housing for Californians?

WASHINGTON — The Interior Department proposed new rules to regulate hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas on federal land Thursday, drawing criticism from environmentalists that it had weakened an earlier draft to placate industry.

Go West, young man. That’s our advice for Andrew Cuomo. By West, we mean California, where he would do well to ask his fellow Democratic governor — Jerry Brown — why good liberals should support fracking. In a budget-focused press conference this week, Brown put it this way:

Gov. Jerry Brown is throwing his weight behind a push to update Proposition 65, California’s safeguard against exposure to toxic chemicals.

California’s landmark Environmental Quality Act — the brainchild of Republican lawmakers trying to woo a then-new voting bloc of “environmentalists” — turns 43 this year.

A bill that would make some changes to California’s landmark environmental review law moved forward in the state Senate on Wednesday, but Democrats rejected a GOP-backed proposal as “too broad and comprehensive a change.”

Many hurdles remain between here and meaningful reform of the California Environmental Quality Act, namely the obstacle that a Democrat-led state Legislature is bound to face when it defies labor unions. But state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg’s bill to modernize CEQA has taken a step toward passage by winning approval from the Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

In response to an embarrassing six-week queue of business filings, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a measure today that immediately sends $1.6 million to the California secretary of state’s office to relieve the backlog.