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New Report on Infrastructure at Risk

Resources for the Future, one of the least partisan of Washington think tanks, has issued a new report entitled Adapting to Climate Change: The Public Policy Response – Public Infrastructure by James E. Neumann and Jason C. Price. The report makes three major recommendations for how to improve infrastructure planning in light of climate change: …

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Biodiversity-friendly seawalls

Seawalls as typically constructed are smooth, vertical structures, beautiful to an engineer’s eye but unappealing to tidal creatures looking for the more complex physical structure typical of a rocky shore. A new paper (Oecologia, subscription required) out of the University of Sydney shows that engineering and ecology need not be at odds, however. The authors …

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The US Chamber of Commerce on Carbon Regulation: Sub-zero stupid

Holly referenced the Chamber of Commerce’s hysterical claim that regulating carbon dioxide would stop all the infrastructure projects in the stimulus. Not only is that not true, but it might in fact be exactly the opposite. The reason is pretty straightforward: to the extent that the government places caps on carbon dioxide, such a policy …

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New York City prepares for climate change’s impacts

New York City’s climate change task force report was released today. This report, which discusses how climate change will affect the city’s infrastructure and residents, has attracted some media attention. Notably, the New York Times has an article on the report. This is important, given how little attention the impacts of climate change on cities’ infrastructure have received to …

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MAGA vs NOAA, Executive Orders, and Growing IRA Support

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The Politics of Geoengineering Are Getting Stranger

Of all the pollution threats out there, why are state lawmakers and U.S. EPA targeting solar geoengineering?

The $133 Million Bat Tunnel

Here’s what permitting reform in the United Kingdom can teach the United States about building and abundance.

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative! Really!

McGill University’s Sustainability Academic Network provides a useful — and potentially crucial — new platform.

DOJ vs. C&T

What Trump’s new lawsuits against two states may mean for California’s cap-and-trade program.

Defunding the Energy Transition

The President Proposes Deep Cuts to Climate and Clean Energy Spending for FY 2026

California Lawmakers Vote on Energy Affordability Soon

Senate Bill 254 is the most ambitious energy affordability legislation proposed in recent years.

Permitting Reform as Policy Stability

Compromise Congressional legislation could dampen the swings of Presidential regulatory policy

Fix Our Forests, version 2

A revised bipartisan proposal in the Senate is a step forward in the right direction

If Dodgers Don’t Quit Big Oil, the Olympics May Make Them

The Olympic Committee’s ban on most advertising could finally force the Dodgers to drop the 76 sponsorship from Dodger Stadium, which is now an LA 2028 venue.

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

Congress wanted greater energy efficiency over time and banned rollbacks.

Here’s what permitting reform in the United Kingdom can teach the United States about building and abundance.

You can’t accuse EPA of hiding the ball. It has announced its new mission: promoting fossil fuels.

McGill University’s Sustainability Academic Network provides a useful — and potentially crucial — new platform.

What Trump’s new lawsuits against two states may mean for California’s cap-and-trade program.

Students with UCLA’s Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic are giving testimony before the California Coastal Commission on a critical issue.

A new emissions trading system is a major step for Brazilian climate policy.

Proposal from House Natural Resources Committee would effectively repeal NEPA

The President Proposes Deep Cuts to Climate and Clean Energy Spending for FY 2026

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

Of all the pollution threats out there, why are state lawmakers and U.S. EPA targeting solar geoengineering?

Here’s what permitting reform in the United Kingdom can teach the United States about building and abundance.

McGill University’s Sustainability Academic Network provides a useful — and potentially crucial — new platform.

What Trump’s new lawsuits against two states may mean for California’s cap-and-trade program.

The President Proposes Deep Cuts to Climate and Clean Energy Spending for FY 2026

Senate Bill 254 is the most ambitious energy affordability legislation proposed in recent years.

Compromise Congressional legislation could dampen the swings of Presidential regulatory policy

A revised bipartisan proposal in the Senate is a step forward in the right direction

The Olympic Committee’s ban on most advertising could finally force the Dodgers to drop the 76 sponsorship from Dodger Stadium, which is now an LA 2028 venue.