Gov. Gavin Newsom sidestepped a lengthy political battle when he signed sweeping changes recently to the California ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom's strong-arm tactics to advance two unpopular California Environmental Quality Act reform bills by tying ...

California officials tweaked one of America’s most draconian environmental laws, but the adjustments will do little to ...

The budget trailer bills shaking up CEQA don’t kill the statute completely, but they make housing projects a whole lot easier.

Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland receives a copy of the housing legislation bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Monday, June 30, 2025 in Sacramento. HECTOR AMEZCUA [email protected] ...

The bills passed with strong support in both the California State Assembly and Senate as part of the state budget process.

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

For decades, the state’s landmark environmental law made it easy to block home construction. A new law changes that.

Lithium battery factories without environmental review. Miami Beach development along the coast. And it's not going to make ...

The passage of these essential reforms are the opening act in the movement for a sustainable California that builds and ...

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

Last Friday, it was unclear whether Newsom would win this game of brinksmanship. By the end of the day Monday, however, the ...