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

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

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill that will remake California’s landmark environmental protection rules ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, is attempting to cut red tape by rolling back the state’s environmental review requirements. The reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act, which, ...

With the start of a new month comes the implementation of new laws. Several new laws signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom will lead to higher pay for some residents, an easier way to cancel ...

Major changes to the California Environmental Quality Act include an exemption for high-tech industrial plants and other ...

After a decade of battling, lawmakers just exempted infill urban development from the California Environmental Quality Act, ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed legislation Monday paring down the state’s landmark environmental review laws in a ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom had threatened to veto the state budget unless legislators rolled back the California ...

The governor and housing advocates maintain that CEQA, while well-intentioned at the time, puts up bureaucratic roadblocks.