In practice, CEQA has increasingly become a tool for obstructing housing development, exacerbating California’s housing ...

Prop 45 seeks to overhaul the law often blamed for delaying construction and driving up its cost: the California ...

Projects often make it through CEQA only to be stopped at the back end by litigation. Currently, a project can go through ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom killed a bill to shore up environmental regulations, but the bigger fight remains ongoing, with Prop. 45 at ...

The California Chamber of Commerce collected signatures to qualify Proposition 45 for the November statewide ballot to ...

California has recently rolled back some of its notorious building regulations to battle problems of red tape and high costs. Now, a measure wants to take the push for reform up a notch.

What a difference a decade can make.  Less than a year after I began writing this blog in September 2011, I wrote a post suggesting that – in ...

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.

Proposition 45 has failed to secure the endorsement of several prominent California housing advocacy organizations, including ...

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 ...

While well intentioned, CEQA has also been used to block or stall projects – even projects cities are trying to encourage, ...

Long-awaited changes to the California Environmental Quality Act have resulted in some progress for developments under review. But two months after the rule changes, developers in Southern California ...