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California lawmakers roll back environmental law. Why is high-tech manufacturing now exempt?
Major changes include an exemption for high-tech industrial plants and other projects. The move, fast-tracked under pressure ...
Controversial climate rule, which could raise gas prices, about to go into effect
No immediate hike in gas prices will occur. But Democrats and Republicans in the Legislature fear the effects of the ...
One of the biggest obstacles to building new CA housing has now vanished
After a decade of battling, lawmakers just exempted infill urban development from the California Environmental Quality Act, ...
Huge changes to CA’s landmark environmental law, CEQA
Between the state budget and other deals, lawmakers have made big changes to the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA.
California proposal would allow soft helmet pads in youth football leagues
Three former college football players in the California Legislature think youth leagues should allow padded helmet add-ons like NFL players wear.
‘This tax could kill this industry.’ California cannabis operators brace for increase
Customers will pay slightly more for legal weed after California’s excise tax is raised. Some lawmakers want to reduce it as the industry struggles with slumping sales.
Opinion
Newsom uses political stunts to garner attention. As Jerry Brown learned, it can backfire
Gavin Newsom could learn, as Jerry Brown did earlier in his career, that political stunts as governor can haunt a presidential bid.
To save money now, Newsom’s new labor deals pause spending on one of California’s biggest debts
California needs $85 billion for public employees' retirement health care. Gov. Newsom's new labor deals pause spending to pre-fund that expense.