Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a major housing bill to speed construction by easing environmental rules. The state is notorious for ...

While the city of Sacramento had already rolled back parts of CEQA for downtown and midtown, building infill housing in other ...

The landmark California environmental legislation that lawmakers have voted to walk back will allow for crucial ...

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

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

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

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

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

New exemptions to a major environmental law "will unambiguously reduce the time frame" for development, experts say.

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

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

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