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How To Botch A CEQA Analysis

LA Metro’s draft EIR for the crucial Sepulveda Transit Corridor is thorough and careful, but it misses a key point: heavy rail is environmentally superior.

What Have We Learned About Rebuilding from Fire?

Woolsey Fire survivors reflect on the rebuilding process and what might help rebuild more resiliently after the January fires.

Trump’s Funniest Executive Orders

Yes, they’re destructive and often cruel. But sometimes, they’re also unintentionally funny.

Why is EPA at War with Its Own Employees?

The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.

We Built This City On Urban Form

California’s CEQA reforms will require rethinking how we code our cities

Thoughts on AB 131

Overall a good bill, but the definition of natural and protected lands is inadequate

Here’s How the Palisades and Altadena Can Rebuild Better

In partnership with UCLA, the Blue Ribbon Commission on Climate Action and Fire-Safe Recovery has released its final recommendations.

Can Public Ownership Fix Our Electricity Woes? It’s Complicated

New UCLA report “Power Struggle: California’s Electric Utility Ownership Dilemma” by Sylvie Ashford, Mohit Chhabra, and Ruthie Lazenby

The Emperor’s New Endangerment Theory (Part III)

How did EPA get to the absurd conclusion that 1.5 billion tons of carbon emissions aren’t significant? Well might you ask.

The Emperor’s New Endangerment Theory (Part II)

To justify a decision not to regulate CO2 from power plants, EPA had to twist statutory language beyond all recognition.