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

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 ...

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 ...

Without Newsom's efforts, major reforms to California's stifling environmental laws would have died on the vine.

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

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

California's environmental law sees minor adjustments, but experts say the changes fall short of meaningful reform for the ...

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 ...

New legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom exempts most new housing projects in urban centers from a lengthy review.

Major changes include an exemption for high-tech industrial plants and other projects. The move, fast-tracked under pressure ...