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

Trump’s push to undermine clean energy projects is putting new focus on California's environmental laws. California lawmakers reeling from President Donald Trump’s assault on clean energy are ...

The landmark environmental bill, CEQA, has been credited with preventing irreversible damage to natural habitats. But it’s also provided an avenue for resistant neighbors to block new housing in urban ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom has rolled back a 54-year-old landmark environmental protection law to aid ...

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 ...

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 ...

California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday passed major changes to the California Environmental Quality Act in what ...