California lawmakers have exempted most urban housing development from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

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

The biggest housing news in California this week was the ending of a major portion of the California Environmental Quality ...

— Assembly member Buffy Wicks, an East Bay Democrat whose bill to shield new “infill” urban apartment development of less ...

While housing advocates applauded the State Legislature’s new CEQA reforms, environmental activists said it will degrade environmental quality.

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

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

A decade-spanning political battle between housing developers and defenders of California’s preeminent environmental law ...

While Massachusetts prepares to debate a small fraction of proposed housing reforms, states across the country are already implementing many of those same ideas.