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A decade of unraveling the effects of regulation on water innovation

By Michael Kiparsky, with Dave Smith, Nell Green Nylen, Luke Sherman, Alida Cantor, Anita Milman, Felicia Marcus, David Sedlak, Bernhard Truffer, Christian Binz, Sasha Harris-Lovett, Jeff Lape, Justin Mattingly, Dave Owen, Lars Tummers, Buzz Thompson

In a recent post, my colleagues and I reported on our most recent research output in a long series of projects examining the effect of regulation on water innovation. The post describes a new framework for understanding and, ultimately, improving relationships between regulators and wastewater utility managers who are seeking to implement novel technical solutions, …

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How States Can Defend Themselves Against Trump

States have a number of tools for protecting their own environments from the Feds.

Suppose the Trump Administration launches environmentally harmful projects in a state or wants to allow more pollution there than the state wants. Does the state have any possible recourse? The answer is yes, although states’s defenses have their limitations. There are a number of mechanisms states can use to defend their own environments, if not the …

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What’s in the final 2012 spending bill?

I’ve just finished plowing through H.R. 2055, the2012 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which was signed by President Obama last week. I was curious to see how many anti-environmental riders made it into the final bill. I haven’t seen much news coverage of the details of the final bill, and the White House offered no comment when …

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Government Hires Shouldn’t Have to Take a MAGA Essay Test

Schedule F was bad, But Trump’s latest move is even worse.

Why Do Heat Pumps Have a Bad Rap? Lies

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

(In?)sane With the Membrane

New developments in Deep Sea Desalination hold important promise for the freshwater crisis – and might require an amendment to Clarke’s Third Law.

The Most Important Law Most People Have Never Heard Of

Here’s how the APA bolsters the rule of law and protects the environment.

The California Legislature Halftime Report

In a year defined by affordability and climate crises, several bills aimed to alleviate pressures on both fronts are advancing in the Legislature.

Climate Lawsuits Now a Matter of Life and Death

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

The Outcome of the Seven Counties Case

Court emphasizes agency discretion and judicial deference in NEPA.

It’s back.

Land sale provisions are back in reconciliation. And they are far worse than before.

A Midnight Public Land Sale?

Last-minute addition to House reconciliation bill proposes sale or exchange of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands

Can Public Ownership Fix Our Electricity Woes? It’s Complicated

New UCLA report “Power Struggle: California’s Electric Utility Ownership Dilemma” by Sylvie Ashford, Mohit Chhabra, and Ruthie Lazenby

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By Michael Kiparsky, with Dave Smith, Nell Green Nylen, Luke Sherman, Alida Cantor, Anita Milman, Felicia Marcus, David Sedlak, Bernhard Truffer, Christian Binz, Sasha Harris-Lovett, Jeff Lape, Justin Mattingly, Dave Owen, Lars Tummers, Buzz Thompson

States have a number of tools for protecting their own environments from the Feds.

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Some people will stop listening if you talk about climate change. But there are other arguments.

Land sale provisions are back in reconciliation. And they are far worse than before.

New UCLA report “Power Struggle: California’s Electric Utility Ownership Dilemma” by Sylvie Ashford, Mohit Chhabra, and Ruthie Lazenby

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

Trump has spared no effort to ensure that the government ignores the needs of vulnerable communities.

In This Moment, What Do We Say to Young People?

While investing in important adaptation and resilience measures, Proposition 4 does less to create new clean energy infrastructure investments

New developments in Deep Sea Desalination hold important promise for the freshwater crisis – and might require an amendment to Clarke’s Third Law.

In a year defined by affordability and climate crises, several bills aimed to alleviate pressures on both fronts are advancing in the Legislature.

Here’s how the APA bolsters the rule of law and protects the environment.

Schedule F was bad, But Trump’s latest move is even worse.

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

New developments in Deep Sea Desalination hold important promise for the freshwater crisis – and might require an amendment to Clarke’s Third Law.

Here’s how the APA bolsters the rule of law and protects the environment.

In a year defined by affordability and climate crises, several bills aimed to alleviate pressures on both fronts are advancing in the Legislature.

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

Court emphasizes agency discretion and judicial deference in NEPA.

Land sale provisions are back in reconciliation. And they are far worse than before.

Last-minute addition to House reconciliation bill proposes sale or exchange of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands

New UCLA report “Power Struggle: California’s Electric Utility Ownership Dilemma” by Sylvie Ashford, Mohit Chhabra, and Ruthie Lazenby