AIR, WATER ISSUES SURFACE IN LAWMAKERS' BOND PROPOSAL REVIEWS

Environmental review exemptions for flood control and road projects, new truck fees to improve air quality and global warming impacts from water use decisions headed up a list of lawmaker concerns this week at kickoff hearings over the governor's infrastructure bond proposals. The infrastructure bonds have become the focus of this legislative year because of their massive dollar amounts and the high levels of indebtedness they would create, and because of the sweeping nature of the programs they would fund...