The opposing view: An affordable housing advocate says historic misuse of environmental laws have delayed projects California can no longer wait for. 45 weakens environmental reviews, reduces community input on polluting projects, and allows wealthy corporations to shift the costs onto taxpayers and families. 45 gives polluters much more power over where and how a wide range of projects are developed. 45 essentially shifts power from the public agencies charged with overseeing these projects to the industrial developers backing them. More than 270 environmental justice, housing, health, labor, conservation, civil rights, climate and clean energy groups oppose Prop.