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By Emily Hamann The head of the California Chamber of Commerce gave details about the group’s ballot initiative to reform California’s environmental review law. CalChamber CEO Jennifer Barrera spoke about...

Contact: John Myers 916.425.7168 john.myers@calchamber.com Measure would reduce California’s high cost of living by cutting red tape and building housing and other essential projects faster and more affordably Sacramento, CA—Today,...

Contact: John Myers 916.425.7168 john.myers@calchamber.com Early momentum and broad coalition reflect strong voter support for reducing our cost of living by cutting red tape and building essential projects faster Sacramento,...

On December 26, 2025, the California Chamber of Commerce received an official Title & Summary from the Attorney General’s office for the Building an Affordable California Act (referred to here as the “Affordable CA”),...

New analyses of the California Chamber of Commerce ballot measure to streamline and modernize the construction of essential projects find it could result in a multibillion-dollar boost to the state’s...

It’s politically popular these days to talk about making the Golden State more affordable, perhaps because we can no longer ignore the impossibly high hurdles standing in the way of...

Anyone with $2,000 to burn can file an initiative with California’s secretary of state, but most measures never get off the ground given the costs of gathering signatures. But when...

Former Gov. Jerry Brown once referred to overhauling the California Environmental Quality Act as “the Lord’s work” because, he said, it made building much-needed things — housing, transportation improvements, water storage, etc....

The initiative aims to streamline the CEQA review process for “essential projects,” arguing that the current system is “too slow, too bureaucratic, and too costly.” The road to the November...

Proposal seeks to modernize, streamline the California Environmental Quality Act (Oct. 21, 2025) Sacramento, CA – The California Chamber of Commerce today filed a request with the Office of the...

Reforming environmental rules is only a small step to rebuilding after wildfires. In the wake of the record-breaking wildfires in Los Angeles in January — some of the most expensive and...

Another year and lawmakers are again faced with the thorny but necessary job of reforming the California Environmental Quality Act, the landmark law that has improved countless construction projects. But...