California Environmental Quality Act

The debate over the project has played out amid a downturn in the region's entertainment industry, with studios taking their film and television productions elsewhere.

The owners of Erewhon have filed an environmental lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles in an effort to stop the planned demolition of the Sportsmen's Lodge hotel.

San Francisco is suing California over an August decision to allow two major autonomous car companies to expand in the city.

In California, the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors, upon a 4 to 0 vote, approved the California Environmental Quality Act analysis for Aemetis Biogas LLC to extend its biogas pipeline by an additional 24 miles using the public right of way. The pipeline transports biogas from dairy digesters to a centralized renewable natural gas upgrading […]

In California, Contra Costa County Superior Court last week ordered Phillips 66 to halt its plan to operate a biofuel refinery in Rodeo, California. The court put the Bay Area megaproject on hold until the county fully complies with environmental review requirements that it violated when first approving the project. Communities for a Better Environment […]

Jeanie Ward-Waller was removed last month from her position overseeing California's transportation planning.

A patchwork of bills passed by the California Legislature may give affordable housing developers the green light to build across the state.

Even if the governor signs the bill into law, the state court system must give final approval for UC Berkeley housing.

California's homeless strategy is very different from Texas'. The cost of rent and housing can make it easier for Texas to get people off the streets.

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The California Environmental Quality Act forces local officials to make prudent decisions, not build recklessly.

Innovative poll finds bipartisan consensus on issues of health, government efficiency, education and environment to strengthen California by 2050

A new appellate court decision affecting UC Berkeley student housing has inspired lawmakers to revive calls to reform CEQA.

For more than a decade, Alterra Mountain Co. has attempted to break ground on a megadevelopment. Tahoe residents gear up to fight it, again.

Warren Resources, which operates a 10-acre oil extraction site, filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the city's ordinance from taking effect.

A new article in Atlantic magazine lays bare the real reason California and other blue states have a homeless crisis while red states don't.

Developers in Santa Monica are planning 4,500 new apartments under a little-known state legal provision — and the city might not be able to stop them.

Noe Valley neighbors have asked the city for a public bathroom in their town square for...

Gov. Newsom signs a farmworker union bill, and in another California Capitol surprise, the Supreme Court chief justice unveils her new job.

What went down in the legislature this week.