Topic: Ceqa

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The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is identified as the legal mechanism used to prevent the clearing of deadwood and the creation of fire breaks. Jones claims that while the state blocks local fire departments from performing mitigation, Governor Newsom uses executive orders to bypass these same rules for his own rebuilding projects. The segment alleges that the drainage of a 117-million-gallon reservoir in the Palisades was a deliberate act of "bureaucratic terrorism."