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Eighty-two percent of the more than 45,000 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at UC Berkeley in 2021 were left to find off-campus housing -- the highest rate across the UC system.

Pollution-control laws were never intended to block residential and transportation development. But that’s how they’re being misused all over the country.

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...

N an opinion filed April 27, and certified for partial publication on May 19, 2023, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. 1) vacated the trial court’s order granting a writ directing...

Public agencies prevailed in 71% of decisions involving the California Environmental Quality Act in 2022. Latham lawyers tracked key developments in California...

CalMatters Commentary - The California Environmental Quality Act has been weaponized in conflicts over housing for years, and a new appellate court decision affecting UC Berkeley has once again revived

Environmental legislation in California has been co-opted by wealthy citizens seeking to prevent development in their neighborhoods

Changes to or exemptions from California Environmental Quality Act CEQA are often included in bills during California legislative session. 2022 was no exception. While many bills suffered slow deaths in committee, some made it to Governor’s desk and were signed into law.

In response to developers' continued cry for meaningful reform, changes to or exemptions from the California Environmental Quality Act (Pub. Res. Code §§ 21000 et seq.) (CEQA...

In a "draft tentative ruling," a California appellate court is siding with NIMBY activists in Berkeley who have been squabbling with the University of California over its growth plans, and a plan to build student housing at People's Park.