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Dan Farber has written and taught on environmental and constitutional law as well as about contracts, jurisprudence and legislation. Currently at Berkeley Law, he has also spent time at Minnesota Law School (where he became the first Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law in 1987), Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago Law School (where he was named McKnight Presidential Professor of Public Law in 2000). He is also a pioneer in the emerging field of Disaster Law, which examines legal issues related to society’s ability to deal effectively with the aftermath of catastrophes and the risk of future disasters.

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Here are some thoughts about possible actions. https://legal-planet.org/2019/11/07/but-what-can-i-do-about-climate-change/. Some environmnetal organizations also have PACs you might consider.

On Battle for the Senate: Too Close to Call in Maine

Tom- It's great to hear that!

On Enforcing NEPA’s Forgotten Mandate

I haven't seen the modeling that they're presumably using, so its hard to know what their assumptions are. I assume…

On BP’s Surprising Pivot

On The Scourge of ERRD-16

On The Scourge of ERRD-16

Lawrence, Thanks for your comment. In fact, the nondelegation argument isn't addressed to enforcement actions. It's about issuing regulations. And…

On The Conservative Assault on Presidential Administration

Hi Rick. I hadn't seen your post when I wrote mine last night! I think they complement each other, however.…

On Ninth Circuit Hands California Local Governments Big Climate Change Win

Joe - Saw your comment about "stubby-fingers typo" and assumed that was me. I'm the Typo King.

On Day In/Day Out, Our Continuing Troubles

A funding condition would work, so long as it wasn't so draconian that the Court would consider it coercive. So…

On The Coronavirus and the Commerce Clause

Thanks for these thoughtful comments. The reference to the common defense and the general welfare relates to the powers to…

On The Coronavirus and the Commerce Clause

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