Walmart Wins Big With California Initiatives  (New)

Date: November 24, 2011
Source: the San Francisco Chronicle
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In a push to expand across California without interference, Wal-Mart is increasingly taking advantage of the state’s initiative system to threaten elected officials with costly special elections and to avoid environmental lawsuits. Richard Frank, director of the California Environmental Law & Policy Center at the UC Davis School of Law, calls the strategy “disturbing because it appears to be a fairly overt circumvention of the CEQA process.”

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