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Are Law Professors Good Political Appointees?

I just got off the phone with a Bloomberg News reporter asking me about Harvard Law Professor Jody Freeman’s appointment as counselor to Carol Browner. After singing Jody’s’ praises (of which there are a great many) he asked me a more general question that has me thinking. Is it a good thing for Obama to …

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A republican moment on climate change? Maybe not yet

The environmental community has been understandably excited about the prospect of finally getting U.S. legislative action in light of the popularity of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, the development of a public consensus on the reality of global warming, the election of Barack Obama, and strong Democratic majorities in both House and Senate. That optimism, …

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The perfect political storm

Co-blogger Dan Farber points to a story in Tuesday’s NY Times about a new study by NOAA’s Susan Solomon and others of the environmental effects of allowing carbon dioxide to equilibrate at levels much above its current 385 ppm. As Dan points out, the prospects for already dry areas are frightening. There’s another important lesson …

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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.

The Multiple Goals of Climate Policy

Effective climate policy requires consideration of efficiency, equity, technological innovation, carbon reductions and political feasibility

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What do recent developments teach us about the world?

Before even taking office, Trump has confirmed that “normality” is out the window.

It was a pretty good year for the environment – until November 5, that is.

How much do you really know about the law relating to climate change?

Clean air. Clean water. We receive these public goods every day without payment, as gifts from everyone to all of us.

Coal is piling up, unused, at powerplants across the country

Does the IRA have staying power?

How to expand climate policy to new places and new sectors

Escalating Legal Attacks on California’s Longstanding Clean Air Act “Waiver” Authority

Feedback effects can lock in decarbonization policies, for better and for worse

Lawmakers can use climate policies to alleviate some cost burdens. They should also resist the narrative that climate progress is driving affordability concerns.

Effective climate policy requires consideration of efficiency, equity, technological innovation, carbon reductions and political feasibility

Expect a lot of the same, but there could be some new twists.

Some thoughts about how the Court should define some limits on indirect effects.

New tools to help local governments plan for equitable and effective investments

What is at stake with the Manchin bill.

By finally granting the Advanced Clean Car II waiver, the agency just undercut Trump’s planned attack on electric vehicles.

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.

Escalating Legal Attacks on California’s Longstanding Clean Air Act “Waiver” Authority

How much do you really know about the law relating to climate change?