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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.

One of the Christmas classics is the Jimmy Stewart movie, It’s a Wonderful Life. Stewart’s character is feeling suicidal, until he learns how much he has unknowingly helped others and how grateful they are. It’s heartwarming if also very corny. There’s a flip side to that story: the need to remember how much others have contributed …

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Gifts We Receive Daily

Our everyday gifts: a livable climate, clean water and air, and biodiversity.

This is a time of year when by religious tradition or secular custom, many people exchange gifts. It’s worth remembering that we also reach receive daily gifts in the form of what economists call public goods. I thought it might be worth reposting some Holiday Season musings on that subject. After all, the holiday season …

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NEWSFLASH: Officials Vow to Stamp Out Recycling Fraud!!

Recycling and voting are both public goods. Just imagine if there was a campaign against fraudulent recycling like the campaign against voter fraud . . . .

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Surfing the Wave of Executive Orders

As an old song says, “Mama Miá, here we go again!”

Huge Snub for Big Oil at the Supreme Court

Oil companies failed to persuade the justices to shield them from the growing number of state lawsuits seeking damages for the harms caused by climate change.

Trump’s War Against NEPA

One of Trump’s Executive Orders Heralds a Revolution in NEPA Practice

Climate Takeaways from Newsom’s Budget Proposal

The Governor’s proposed 2025-26 budget would tap the recent voter-approved climate bond and seek new emergency funds.

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.

Test Your Knowledge of Climate Law

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

Trading more LNG exports for more electricity transmission?

Recent Department of Energy report indicates that the trade may be worth it

A Crisis in Climate Communications

Deadly windstorms, wildfires, and hurricanes constitute something more horrific than just “climate change.”

Government by Reconciliation

The reconciliation process avoids the risk of a Senate filibuster. But it comes wth procedural and political complications.

LA Fires and the Climate Connection

New UCLA research connects the dots between the climate crisis and the supercharged LA wildfires. “Hydroclimate whiplash” means worse floods, droughts, and fires.

economics of public goods

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

Our everyday gifts: a livable climate, clean water and air, and biodiversity.

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Climate policy is changing rapidly. Stay in the loop with expert analysis via email Monday - Friday.

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Apparently it’s “woke” to worry about excessive pollution in minority communities.

One of Trump’s Executive Orders Heralds a Revolution in NEPA Practice

As an old song says, “Mama Miá, here we go again!”

A Q&A with Catherine McKenna, who led the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Expert Group on Net-Zero Commitments of Non-State Entities.

Trump’s agencies had a terrible litigation record the first time. It will probably get better – but not that much better.

California’s environmental and climate regulations did not make the climate-fueled Palisades and Eaton fires more destructive or harder to fight. Here’s why.

A 2024 study falls fall short in shedding light on the impacts of NEPA litigation

A Force in the CEQA World

Will OYGBIV Follow?

His climate actions will resonate far into the future.

As an old song says, “Mama Miá, here we go again!”

Oil companies failed to persuade the justices to shield them from the growing number of state lawsuits seeking damages for the harms caused by climate change.

One of Trump’s Executive Orders Heralds a Revolution in NEPA Practice

The Governor’s proposed 2025-26 budget would tap the recent voter-approved climate bond and seek new emergency funds.

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

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

Recent Department of Energy report indicates that the trade may be worth it

Deadly windstorms, wildfires, and hurricanes constitute something more horrific than just “climate change.”

The reconciliation process avoids the risk of a Senate filibuster. But it comes wth procedural and political complications.

New UCLA research connects the dots between the climate crisis and the supercharged LA wildfires. “Hydroclimate whiplash” means worse floods, droughts, and fires.