The landmark California environmental legislation that lawmakers have voted to walk back will allow for crucial infrastructure to take place.

After a decade of intense debating California overhauls CEQA, its landmark environmental law with hopes of making the state more affordable to live.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, lagging far behind his campaign pledge to build millions more homes, signed Monday evening the most significant rollback in decades to California’s core environmental law that’s long been blamed for construction delays and soaring prices that have increasingly put housing out of reach for the state’s residents.

With Newsom’s challenge to Trump in limbo, California politicians are seemingly powerless to fight back, from federal court to the state Legislature.

By Tim Reid, Pilar Olivares and Leah Douglas OXNARD, California (Reuters) -Lisa Tate is a sixth-generation farmer in Ventura County, California, an area that produces billions of dollars worth of fruit and vegetables each year,

Six Republican California lawmakers sent a letter to President Donald Trump, asking him to avoid sweeping workplace immigration raids that have caused some workers major fear. Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones and Assembly Member Laurie Davies,