Dan Farber January 2, 2025 What to Expect When You’re Expecting Trump: Looking Ahead to 2025 Before even taking office, Trump has confirmed that “normality” is out the window.
Dan Farber December 30, 2024 2024: Ending on a Dark Note It was a pretty good year for the environment – until November 5, that is.
Dan Farber December 26, 2024 Test Your Knowledge of Climate Law How much do you really know about the law relating to climate change?
Dan Farber December 24, 2024 The Environmental Gifts of the Magi Clean air. Clean water. We receive these public goods every day without payment, as gifts from everyone to all of us.
Dan Farber December 23, 2024 There are Piles of Coal in America’s Christmas Stocking Coal is piling up, unused, at powerplants across the country
Eric Biber December 20, 2024 Looking Ahead to the Second Trump Administration Does the IRA have staying power?
Eric Biber December 20, 2024 Broadening the Scope of Climate Policy How to expand climate policy to new places and new sectors
Richard Frank December 19, 2024 Good & Bad Environmental News From the U.S. Supreme Court Escalating Legal Attacks on California’s Longstanding Clean Air Act “Waiver” Authority
Eric Biber December 19, 2024 How to Commit to Decarbonization Feedback effects can lock in decarbonization policies, for better and for worse
Ethan Elkind December 19, 2024 What Is A “Sustainable Battery”? CLEE’s Global Forum for Sustainable Batteries releases a 2040 Sustainable Battery Vision
Julia Stein December 9, 2024 California Can Protect Climate Policies—and Pocketbooks Lawmakers can use climate policies to alleviate some cost burdens. They should also resist the narrative that climate progress is driving affordability concerns.
Eric Biber December 16, 2024 The Multiple Goals of Climate Policy Effective climate policy requires consideration of efficiency, equity, technological innovation, carbon reductions and political feasibility
Dan Farber December 9, 2024 Trump & Environmental Policy: The Sequel, Part I Expect a lot of the same, but there could be some new twists.
Dan Farber December 9, 2024 NEPA in the Supreme Court — On the Eve of Oral Argument Some thoughts about how the Court should define some limits on indirect effects.
Ted Lamm December 12, 2024 A Framework for Equity and Local Leadership in the EV Transition New tools to help local governments plan for equitable and effective investments
Ann Carlson December 18, 2024 EPA Grants California’s Waivers for Clean Cars and Clean Trucks By finally granting the Advanced Clean Car II waiver, the agency just undercut Trump’s planned attack on electric vehicles.
Dan Farber December 19, 2024 Our Mission: Keeping Hope Alive If you read Legal Planet, you know the work of the environmental law centers at Berkeley and UCLA is critical. Now is the time to support it.
Richard Frank December 19, 2024 Good & Bad Environmental News From the U.S. Supreme Court Escalating Legal Attacks on California’s Longstanding Clean Air Act “Waiver” Authority
Dan Farber December 26, 2024 Test Your Knowledge of Climate Law How much do you really know about the law relating to climate change?