![]() The governor’s frustration over how long it takes to push forward with major building efforts is understandable. ![]() Newsom sought to limit the timelines for environmental litigation and simplify the permitting process for the Delta tunnel, along with other coveted transportation, energy and infrastructure projects. Newsom’s latest effort was part of an 11-bill legislative package that the governor waited until May 19 to unveil, knowing that it would move through the Legislature without the sort of scrutiny major projects such as the Delta tunnel deserve. It’s the zombie water project that state officials won’t let die. Yet Newsom, like former governors Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger before him, keeps seeking ways to keep it alive. This a project that has never penciled out, wouldn’t add a drop of new water to California’s supply and would be an environmental disaster for the largest estuary west of the Mississippi. Gavin Newsom’s decision last week to concede defeat in fast-tracking the Delta tunnel raised hopes that the $16 billion boondoggle was, at long last, dead.
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