Wednesday March 12, 2025
SF Gate —
A local Republican congressman has set his sights on the California Coastal Commission, the vital agency tasked with protecting roughly 1,100 miles of ocean coastline from Oregon to Mexico. On March 5, Rep. Kevin Kiley announced the introduction of the Coastal Commission Accountability Act, which he said on X would “strip the CA Coastal Commission of its powers under federal law.”
Kiley called the more-than-50-year-old Coastal Commission “out-of-control” and said the work being done by the commission “has repeatedly threatened the safety of Californians and weakened our national defense, while needlessly undercutting innovation and economic progress.”
Kiley represents California’s massive 3rd District, which stretches from north of Tahoe and the suburbs of Sacramento through Mammoth Lakes and down to Death Valley. (Notably, his district does not touch on any areas along the coast.) Kiley, whom President Donald Trump has backed in the past, is a Placer County-based Republican known for his often incendiary remarks about California. He has called California a state in “total freefall.”