Guest Contributor June 5, 2026 California Permits Pesticides the EU Has Banned Guest contributor Julie Binot writes that farmworkers are paying the price of California’s weaker pesticide standards.
Chloé F. Smith Ethan Elkind June 3, 2026 What’s the Long-Term Plan to Decarbonize Aviation? New CLEE Report on How to Deploy More Carbon-Neutral Electrofuels or “E-Fuels”
Dan Farber June 3, 2026 Statutory Language? Who Cares About Statutory Language? A new DOE guidance seems flatly contrary to the statute it’s acting under.
Evan George June 3, 2026 One Big Loser in the California Primary is Already Clear The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.
Dan Farber June 1, 2026 The Latest Step in Trump’s War on Science OMB’s proposed new rule seeks to politicize research funding across the entire federal government
Evan George May 28, 2026 America the Beautiful — Not Beautification Projects The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.
Dan Farber May 28, 2026 The Compelling Case for Clean Energy Subsidies There’s a solid economic case for government support
Dan Farber May 25, 2026 Gas Pains Higher gas prices are inflicting real pain on lower-income families.
Dan Farber May 21, 2026 Too Cheap to Meter? Unlimited energy abundance is more of a pipe dream than a realistic policy goal.
Evan George May 21, 2026 Hate the Gas Tax? Get to Know the Road Usage Charge The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.
Eric Biber May 10, 2026 Is BACA Constitutional? Limitations on judicial review in the initiative might violate separation of powers
Dan Farber May 11, 2026 Trump’s FEMA Review Trump’s FEMA Council has reported back. Its basic strategy is flawed.
Linnan Cao May 12, 2026 The Other Half of Climate: Policy, Capital, and the Race to Scale Superpollutant Solutions Learn how California is using satellite data to pull the emergency brake on global warming.
Evan George May 13, 2026 An Inconvenient Truth Two Decades Later The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.
Alex Wang May 13, 2026 Trump and Xi Meet in Beijing As the U.S. and China meet, climate change is NOT on the agenda.
Jason Gray May 18, 2026 Reducing Deforestation from California to Colombia and Beyond There are bright spots and opportunities for more work to do on improving data, governance, and access to finance.
Guest Contributor May 19, 2026 Protecting Consumers in the Electric Vehicle Transition UC Berkeley paper highlights opportunities for California to strengthen consumer protections in the EV transition.
Evan George May 21, 2026 Hate the Gas Tax? Get to Know the Road Usage Charge The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.
Dan Farber June 1, 2026 The Latest Step in Trump’s War on Science OMB’s proposed new rule seeks to politicize research funding across the entire federal government
Evan George June 3, 2026 One Big Loser in the California Primary is Already Clear The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.