Gavin Newsom's about-face on anti-development environmental restrictions is welcome, but it does not touch the underlying ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill that will remake California’s landmark environmental protection rules ...

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

Gov. Gavin Newsom tied the state budget to the passage of policy to lessen environmental review standards to speed up the ...

The Legislature passed an updated state budget bill last Friday that, per an agreement drawn up by Newsom and the leaders of ...

The governor and housing advocates maintain that CEQA, while well-intentioned at the time, puts up bureaucratic roadblocks.

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

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

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

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, is attempting to cut red tape by rolling back the state’s environmental review requirements. The reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act, which, ...