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 ...

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 two bills signed by the governor create sweeping exemptions for urban infill housing developments up to 20 acres.

California’s Democratic leaders aren’t too happy about it, but the Trump administration has no doubt done them a favor by ...

San Jose is required to build 62,200 homes by 2031, according to its state-mandated housing plan. So far, San Jose has completed 3,586 homes in the current cycle, which runs from 2023 to 2031. It has ...

Scott Wiener, the influential Senate Budget Committee chair, who said in an interview Wednesday that lawmakers should consider exempting clean energy projects from the California Environmental Quality ...

In contrast to New York voters favoring a “democratic socialist,” Californians chose moderate politicians like Gov. Gavin ...

Efforts to conduct a wildfire mitigation project in the Carr Fire burn scar in Shasta County have been delayed due to a holdup in FEMA funding, according to th ...

Standing on the burned-down parcel where his sister once resided, Zaire Calvin spoke to a crowd of neighbors, loved ones and community organizers.  “My sister Evelyn McClendon was the very […] ...