Lamont said that after decades of cooperation on environmental issues it's now hard to reach a national consensus.

Late Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two major bills to change one of the state’s oldest and most powerful environmental laws. The measures are designed to make it easier to build more housing in a ...

California lawmakers on Monday approved one of the most substantial rollbacks of the state’s signature environmental review ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom upended the state's oldest and most powerful environmental laws this week, signing two bills that will make it easier to build housing in a state that has some of worst shortages and ...

Allowing states to shoulder more responsibility for environmental reviews will restore the function and purpose of the National Environmental Policy Act.

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

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed to roll back a 50-year-old law blamed for blocking development and reducing affordability ...

The National Environmental Policy Act has not been immune to changes since President Richard Nixon signed it into law 55 ...

Environmental advocates had been pushing New York lawmakers to pass the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act down to the final days of the legislative session, draping artwork made ...

What is the Antiquities Act, and what does it do? The Antiquities Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906. Since its passage, all but three ...