"The article elegantly creates scenarios for what the LA area residents impacted by the fires will encounter once they try to rebuild. While the number is great, it would appear that who was affected and where adds much more political muscle to their rebuild case. It would seem that only President Trump can help them, which means he will have to coerce the state into compliance with commonsense. It will be interesting to see what lengths its environmental lobby will go to thwart his effort. The article implies that these people will try to sue the administration into compliance with what they want, which is money to rebuild and keep the current environmental/anti-business (and anti-commonsense) status quo. So, it will be interesting to see who has the most political power in California, the environmentalist lobby or the people most impacted by the fires." Comment from a reader to this post.
"The executive order issued by President Trump in response to the Los Angeles wildfires is the first step in what promises to be an extraordinary effort by his administration to beat some sense back into California’s environmental policies. Trump has “threatened to withhold federal disaster aid for wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles unless California leaders change the state’s approach on its management of water.” Unlike previous presidents, it is quite possible that Trump will make good on his threats.
"The Democrats who run California may decide to take Trump seriously, or they may merely use his remarks as additional fodder for performative litigation against the Trump administration. But regardless of how they react, it doesn’t change the fact that environmentalism run amok has inflicted grievous harm on the state. It has made California unaffordable at the same time as it has moved beyond helping the environment to actively harming the environment. The fires in Los Angeles are the latest proof.
"Anyone familiar with the consequences of environmentalist extremism in California will almost invariably point to one particular law as the biggest culprit, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), originally enacted by the state legislature in 1970. At that time, it was the first legislation of its kind in the nation, if not the world. Its original intent was to “inform government decision-makers and the public about the potential environmental effects of proposed activities and to prevent significant, avoidable environmental damage.”
"Over the past half-century, CEQA has acquired layers of legislative updates and precedent-setting court rulings, warping it into a beast that denies clarity to developers and derails projects. When projects do make it through the CEQA gauntlet, the price of passage adds punitive costs in time and money. Knowing this will happen deters countless investors and developers from even trying to complete a project in the state.
"The result of CEQA is higher prices and scarcity of everything, including housing, water, energy, and good jobs." . . .
Behind a paywall: The Spectacle Ep. 182: Los Angeles Fires and Gavin Newsom’s Incompetence "Gavin Newsom is [and has been] a terrible governor."
But Hollywood loves him!
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