Backers say the California Environmental Quality Act is a vital tool for environmental review. Critics say CEQA is too often ...

The California Environmental Quality Act has been used in such an abusive way for more than 50 years that then-Gov. Jerry ...

The November elections are around the corner and an important voter initiative will be on the ballot: Building an Affordable California Act (BACA, also known as Proposition 45). BACA would ...

In Richardson Grove, had the Caltrans case come up after Prop. 45, Caltrans could have benefited from a 270-calendar-day time limit on courts to resolve the case. If a court found a flaw, it could ...

On June 30, 2025 California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 130 and SB 131, the most significant reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in decades. These changes are a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times) As Californians grapple with sky-high housing and utility costs, Proposition 45 seeks to overhaul ...

In June 2025, significant reforms to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) were enacted to promote housing projects in a state that desperately needs them. Much of the initial reaction was ...

The major overhaul of California's development-killing environmental review law heading to the ballot. Landlords and the Justice Department's wrangling over a settlement for eviction moratorium losses ...

The California Environmental Quality Act is intended to inform government decision-makers and the public about the potential environmental effects of proposed projects. But as one court recently ...

For more than five decades, California has been governed by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). It’s a law originally designed to protect the state's natural resources. Signed by Governor ...

After new legislation passed defanging parts of the California Environmental Quality Act, Holland & Knight partner Daniel Golub received an email from someone proclaiming, “CEQA is dead.” It’s not.

The California Chamber of Commerce has filed the Building an Affordable California Act (BACA) voter initiative, a comprehensive reform that will modernize California’s project approval process and ...