Two months ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators from both parties celebrated enacting landmark legislation to remove the California Environm…
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Legal challenges for new developments could start declining on the Peninsula, as recent legislation expanded exemptions for a 55-year-old law …
There’s no shortage of opinions on California’s newly-passed state budget bill — and the sweeping housing reforms and new environmental regula…
Jerry Brown once described reform of the California Environmental Quality Act as “the lord’s work” but he, like other recent governors, was no…
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill that will remake California's landmark environmental protection rules. Newsom says the overhaul is essential to address the state's housing shortage and resulting homelessness crisis. Newsom had threatened to reject the state budget passed last Friday unless lawmakers overhauled the California Environmental Quality Act. The 1970s law requires strict examination of any new development for its impact on the environment. The governor and housing advocates maintain that the environmental rules were well-intentioned but put up bureaucratic roadblocks that have made it increasingly difficult to build housing in the state.
In 1947, decades before the federal Clean Air Act, California’s leaders began regulating the causes of harmful air pollution. It was also our …
What happens when regulations created to protect the environment 55 years ago no longer fulfill their purpose, but instead stand in the way of…
For years, California has been stuck in a recurring fight between legislators who want the state to turbocharge new home construction and legi…
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Caltrain is throwing support behind two bills that would extend regulatory exemptions and expand security protections for transit workers.
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Criticisms raised over a major life science campus development proposed in Redwood Shores hope to be addressed through an environmental impact…