After a decade of battling, lawmakers just exempted infill urban development from the California Environmental Quality Act, ...

California lawmakers have rolled back portions of a landmark state environment law to make it easier to build new housing in ...

Mamdani clinches NYC mayoral primary, and boost in immigration arrests puts NYC’s sanctuary status to the test.

A new wildfire was reported today at 11:41 a.m. in Fresno County, California. Mad Fire has burned two acres of private land.

A new wildfire was reported today at 9:53 a.m. in Siskiyou County, California. Summit Fire has been burning on federal land ...

Housing experts said it remains to be seen how builder’s remedy would work in Oregon. In California, not-in-my-backyard ...

California approved the Darden Clean Energy Project, a massive battery storage facility that could power 850,000 homes for ...

This article is part of The Rooftop, a blog and multimedia series from New America’s Future of Land and Housing program. Featuring insights from experts across diverse fields, the series is a home for ...

Governor Gavin Newsom called the move the "most consequential housing reform that we've seen in modern history." ...

Major changes include an exemption for high-tech industrial plants and other projects. The move, fast-tracked under pressure ...

They found that, even with improvements in agricultural productivity (due to technological improvements like new seed ...

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