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

Last Friday, it was unclear whether Newsom would win this game of brinksmanship. By the end of the day Monday, however, the ...

Newsom said the bills, which he signed Monday night, are the most consequential housing reform in recent California history.

Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland receives a copy of the housing legislation bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Monday, ...

Sacramento did its job, now it’s time for L.A. city to do our job,” Mayor Karen Bass added, pledging to streamline permitting ...

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

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed two housing bills into law, aimed at making it easier and faster to build new housing by ...

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

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law sweeping reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and ...

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, ...

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

Newsom described the bills as the “most consequential housing reform that we’ve seen in modern history in the state of California.” But the legislation has angered some environmental groups and labor ...