A ballot measure that would overhaul one of California’s most powerful and controversial environmental laws has a commanding lead less than three months before voters begin casting ballots in the statewide November election. Proposition 45, which would make substantial changes to the California Environmental Quality Act, has the support 73% of likely voters, with 24% opposed and 4% undecided, according to a poll released Wednesday evening by the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research group in San Francisco. If approved by a majority of voters, the measure would set a 365-day limit on environmental reviews for a range of projects, including new reservoirs, desalination plants, forest thinning to reduce wildfire risk, apartments, housing subdivisions, roads, bridges, public transit, hospitals, solar farms, wind farms and battery storage facilities. 

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