Christopher Guillen on Environmental Policies

New Vehicle Miles Traveled Mitigation—Abundance or Another Bagel Topping?

This is the fifth update in our series covering AB 130 and SB 131, two bills that work substantive changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and California housing law....more

7/22/2025 / Affordable Housing , California , CEQA , Environmental Policies , New Legislation , Proposed Legislation , Real Estate Development , Rulemaking Process , State Legislatures , Urban Planning & Development

CEQA Reform: AB 130 and SB 131 Create Series of Exemptions for Wide Range of Projects

Note: This is the third update in our series covering AB 130 and SB 131, two bills that work substantive changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and California housing law....more

7/17/2025 / California , CEQA , Construction Project , Environmental Policies , Exemptions , Housing Developers , New Legislation , Public Projects , Regulatory Reform , Zoning Laws

CEQA News You Can Use - November 2024 - Volume 9, Issue 3

Welcome to “CEQA News You Can Use,” a quarterly production of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP’s Natural Resources lawyers. This publication provides quick, useful bites of CEQA news, which we hope can be a resource to...more

11/5/2024 / California , CEQA , CEQA Reform , Construction Project , Environmental Impact Report (EIR) , Environmental Policies , Public Projects , State and Local Government , State Legislatures , Urban Planning & Development

SB 423 Expands and Extends California’s Landmark Housing Streamlining Bill

Bill extends exemption from CEQA and discretionary entitlements for housing projects while adding the Coastal Zone to the mix - If you are having trouble keeping track of all the housing bills in California this year,...more

10/25/2023 / Affordable Housing , California , CEQA , City Planning Departments , Environmental Policies , Governor Newsom , New Legislation , Real Estate Development , State and Local Government , Urban Planning & Development

What’s Happening at the California Capitol? Another Pass at CEQA and Housing Streamlining

In this alert, Brownstein outlines Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest swing at the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and provides the updates (and potentially what to expect) regarding two new bills introduced by Sen. Scott...more

6/5/2023 / California , CEQA , Environmental Impact Report (EIR) , Environmental Policies , Environmental Review , Proposed Legislation , Real Estate Development , State and Local Government , Urban Planning & Development

California Cannabis and CEQA Collide

Assembly Bill (AB) 141 and Senate Bill (SB) 160, which passed in 2021, will bring an end to provisional cannabis licenses and change the requirements for renewing provisional licenses issued by California’s Department of...more

3/7/2022 / California , Cannabis Products , Cannabis-Related Businesses (CRBs) , CEQA , Environmental Impact Report (EIR) , Environmental Policies

CEQA News You Can Use - Volume 6, Issue 4

Welcome to “CEQA News You Can Use,” a quarterly production of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck's Natural Resources lawyers. This publication provides quick, useful bites of CEQA news, which we hope can be a resource to your...more

12/31/2021 / California , CEQA , CEQA Reform , Construction Industry , Construction Project , Environmental Impact Report (EIR) , Environmental Policies , Public Projects , State and Local Government , Urban Planning & Development