He said the league was aware of the environmental exemption's passage, but wasn't actively supporting any specific proposals.

If AEG were to get an environmental exemption, it still would have to complete an environmental impact report.

Brown spokesman Gil Duran said the governor was not considering any environmental exemptions, appearing to leave open the possibility of streamlining the process.

Schwarzenegger announced the signing of the environmental exemption bill Thursday in Industry, where the stadium would be built about 15 miles east of Los Angeles.

BP's ability to get environmental exemptions from the Minerals Management Service led to some of the harshest criticism of the now-defunct agency.

"Congress has set up a virtual environmental exemption bazaar," Gov. John Kitzhaber of Oregon said the other day, "granting special interest after special interest exemption."

The announcement came in response to a report by the White House Council on Environmental Quality, which found BP got environmental exemptions based on decades-old data.

Huff cast a deciding vote in 2009 on a Senate rule waiver that allowed a measure on environmental exemptions favorable to one of Huff's donors, Majestic Realty.

So no one has a right to be surprised that just last week the Legislature granted another environmental exemption, this time for Anschutz Entertainment Group's proposed NFL stadium downtown.

NFL stadium in L.A.: Top AEG officials descend on the Capitol to seek environmental exemptions for NFL stadium development in L.A.

In 2009, the city council of the City of Industry approved the construction of a stadium and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill with an environmental exemption to support a stadium in that city.

The Industry proposal is significantly ahead of the downtown bid in that it is shovel-ready with a piece of land that already has necessary zoning and the environmental exemption that AEG is seeking from the state.

The agreement was reached during negotiations mandated by the Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, who postponed a vote on a bill last week that would have granted the 75,000-seat venue an environmental exemption and let its construction move forward.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The California Senate has voted to allow developers of a proposed 75,000-seat football stadium in the Southern California city of Industry an environmental exemption that allows construction to move forward.

And on the reasoning that what's good for the AEG goose is good for the entire development business gaggle, the Legislature promptly passed yet another environmental exemption, this time a gift so open-ended that no one has any idea how many big construction projects will be shaded beneath its capacious boughs.