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

Governor Newsom reforms California's costly environmental regulations while facing challenges in waste management and housing ...

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

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

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] ...

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

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

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

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

Changes to the California Environmental Quality Act came via two trailer bills (AB 130 and SB 131) attached to the state ...

California has passed two bills to reform the CEQA, limiting the use of CEQA as a tool for labor negotiations and ensuring ...

Newsom muscles Legislature into reining in the California Environmental Quality Act, which reminds us that change is ...