The California Environmental Quality Act has required projects to identify impacts and solutions for 55 years. Some housing ...

Gov. Newsom waived CEQA and the California Coastal Act for utilities working to rebuild, and move infrastructure underground, ...

SB 607 would allow agencies to bypass the Environmental Impact Report requirement, severely limiting CEQA's ability to ...

At least half, $85 million, will be directed to conservancies in Southern California, while $54 will focus on the Sierra ...

Democrats would have a stronger rebuke to Trumpism if our public services were the national model rather than a laughingstock ...

The California Environmental Quality Act has been on the books since 1971, but its power as a potential check on development has ebbed and flowed with various court rulings and state legislative ...

In the recurring legislative fight between YIMBY legislators and defenders of California’s signature environmental law, one bill could be a final legislative showdown.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at rapidly expanding timber production in national forests across ...

BUT THE HEADLINER IS THIS BILL ON SEQUA. CEQA IS CALIFORNIA’S ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT. IT’S NOTORIOUS FOR SLOWING DOWN OR STOPPING PROJECTS OF ALL KINDS, FROM A NEW BIKE LANE TO WILDFIRE ...

A bipartisan group of legislators pushed forth a package of 22 housing bills Thursday, including one that would exempt most urban housing developments from the 55-year-old California Environmental ...

Today, CEQA’s defenders are largely Democratic, but its original proponents were Republican. In 1970, then-Governor Ronald ...

A new bill by Oakland Democratic Assemblymember Buffy Wicks would exempt most urban housing developments from the 55-year-old California Environmental Quality Act. “If we're able to get it to ...