California lawmakers have exempted most urban housing development from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a major housing bill to speed construction by easing environmental rules. The state is notorious for ...

The landmark California environmental legislation that lawmakers have voted to walk back will allow for crucial ...

While housing advocates applauded the State Legislature’s new CEQA reforms, environmental activists said it will degrade ...

This week on Inside California Politics, host Nikki Laurenzo sat down with Democratic strategist Andrew Acosta and Republican strategist Rob Stutzman. Newsom threatened the implementation of the ...

California is rolling back environmental regulations for some construction projects after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law this ...

Newsom described the bills as the “most consequential housing reform that we’ve seen in modern history in the state of ...

After a decade of intense debating California overhauls CEQA, its landmark environmental law with hopes of making the state ...

A sweeping reform to the California Environmental Quality Act has divided environmentalists and climate advocates.

California lawmakers approved changes this week to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), first passed in 1970 by ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom, lagging far behind his campaign pledge to build millions more homes, signed Monday evening the most ...

CEQA, one of the country’s strictest state-level regulatory frameworks affecting housing projects and other development, was ...