Gavin Newsom could learn, as Jerry Brown did earlier in his career, that political stunts as governor can haunt a presidential bid.

Jerry Brown once described reform of the California Environmental Quality Act as “the lord’s work” but he, like other recent governors, was not willing to invest enough political capital to ...

Changes to the California Environmental Quality Act via two trailer bills (AB 130 and SB 131) were attached to the state ...

The state excise tax just went up, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard is getting more strict and 2 refineries are shutting down.

With the passage of a state budget-related housing bill, the California Environmental Quality Act will be a non-issue for a ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California legislators passed a major reform of the California Environmental Quality Act on Monday. The new laws remove a key point of leverage for project opponents that has ...

In a legislative battle a decade in the making, lawmakers just exempted infill urban development from the California ...

There are no shortage of reasons not to build housing in California. Labor costs, even without regulatory requirements, are ...

His 1980 presidential campaign put the Libertarian Party on the map in a year rich in libertarian cultural clout.

This story was originally published . Sign up for their newsletters. A framer working on a construction project as seen through a puddle’s reflection in Castro Valley on Feb. 6, 2024. Photo by Camille ...

California leaders on Monday reformed a landmark environmental law seen as a barrier to solving the housing shortage and ...