• Jonathan Zasloff
• August 15, 2025

What Do Bureaucrats Maximize?

New research demonstrates that governments can reduce intractable emissions problems — if they have the right incentives

• Cara Horowitz
• August 14, 2025

How Methane Satellites Work and Why it Matters

This new UCLA Law report aims to help policymakers understand the science and utility of methane satellites.

• Dan Farber
• August 14, 2025

Dear 2025 1L:

• Evan George
• August 13, 2025

The Energy Secretary Pushes Pseudoscience

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

• Evan George
• August 11, 2025

“Hi, Can you Hear Me?” A CPUC Debrief

The California Public Utilities Commission heard an earful about neighborhood decarbonization. Here’s the input from Californians who support climate action.

• Dan Farber
• August 11, 2025

Emergency Powers Aren’t What They Used to Be

In the post-WW2 era, courts bent over backwards to accomodate emergency actions. Not true today, as Trump is finding out.

• Ken Alex
• August 11, 2025

Time for a Positive Vision of America’s Environment

Restore and Respect America the Beautiful

• Jonathan Zasloff
• August 8, 2025

Mayor NIMBY

Karen Bass’ blocking of duplexes in devastated communities is a nasty piece of plutocracy.

• Chloé F. Smith
• August 8, 2025

From Sacramento to Geneva: Two Arenas Tackle Plastic Pollution

California considers adding microplastics to its Candidate Chemical List as delegates negotiate a Global Binding Treaty on Plastics in Switzerland

• Denise Grab
• August 7, 2025

Gas Utilities Can Do Better on Neighborhood Electrification

The state’s largest gas utilities are trying to delay priority zones for decarbonization and to block public access to important data. The CPUC should push them to do more.