NOAA begins review of California’s coastal plan

The Trump administration has announced it will review the powers of the California Coastal Commission, the 12-member body that regulates development along 840 miles of shoreline and has long been a target of the president and his allies. The review, by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will examine the state’s decades-old coastal management program, a voluntary federal-state partnership established under the Coastal Zone Management Act. That law applies to coastal and Great Lakes areas…