The changes to the California Environmental Quality Act could greatly speed up the issuance of building permits.

The climate is supposedly a life or death issue, but California Democrats won't let it get in the way of their monopoly on state power.

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

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

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

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

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

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

New California state laws will make it easier for developers to build housing in areas of Sacramento that are outside ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers scaled back a law that was vilified for its role in California’s housing shortage and ...

New exemptions to a major environmental law "will unambiguously reduce the time frame" for development, experts say.