Guest Contributor

• Guest Contributor
• January 21, 2026

UCLA Report Offers Framework for Resolving Coastal Conflicts  

Guest contributors Maeve Anderson and Mackay Peltzer write that regulatory updates are needed to ensure California’s coastal planning remains consistent with the intent of the Coastal Act.

• Guest Contributor
• December 17, 2025

California Must Go Big to Save Big

A new Emmett Institute report shows how California can shift existing infrastructure spending from gas to electric to make homes and energy more affordable.

• Guest Contributor
• December 17, 2025

What’s So Special About NEPA?

Guest contributors Dinah Bear and Niel Lawrence argue that the National Environmental Policy Act process provides unique and wide-reaching benefits.

• Guest Contributor
• September 7, 2025

House Natural Resources Committee Holds Hearing on Another Ill-Conceived Permitting Reform Bill

The SPEED Act takes aim at the scientific foundation of environmental review

• Guest Contributor
• August 20, 2025

States Should Not Wait to “Make Polluters Pay”

Guest contributors Laura Fox and Doug Kysar write that now is the right time for more states to adopt climate accountability laws, despite ongoing legal challenges.

• Guest Contributor
• August 6, 2025

Can Residential Electrification Support Energy Affordability?

New UCLA report illustrates potential savings across household types and energy upgrade scenarios, write guest contributors Rachel Sheinberg and Lauren Dunlap.

• Guest Contributor
• July 31, 2025

The Animal Agriculture Industry Undermines Climate Action

Guest Contributor Alexander Wood, a UCLA Law student, writes that lessons learned from Big Oil can be applied to animal agriculture.

• Guest Contributor
• July 30, 2025

States Become “Norm Sustainers” on Environmental Justice

Guest Contributor Sharmila L. Murthy explains how state Attorneys General are acting as important counterweights to the federal government on environmental justice.

• Guest Contributor
• June 30, 2025

The Quiet Erosion of Federal Legal Internships 

Guest Contributor Emma Rose Shore, a UCLA Law student, reflects on the current administration’s attack on civil servants and the cancellation of summer internships. 

• Guest Contributor
• May 2, 2025

Modernizing Air Permitting in California

Guest Contributor Craig Segall writes that SB 318 would help clean up factories and other big industrial sources by pulling permitting practices into this century.