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Rep. Waxman, Sen. Pavley, and Mary Nichols talk climate change

For those of you interested in the relationship between federal climate legislation and California’s landmark global warming laws, tune in tomorrow 10am-noon PDT for a public forum at UCLA. It will be live webcast here, and yes, we are apparently even twittering it. Rep. Henry Waxman will talk about his work in passing the American Clean Energy and …

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Carlson to Nat’l Academy of Sciences panel on mitigating climate change

Contributor Ann Carlson’s too modest to post this herself, but she’s recently been named as one of two lawyers to the National Academy of Sciences’ expert panel on “limiting the magnitude of future climate change.” (The other is CARB chair Mary Nichols.) As called for by Congress, NAS is convening experts from across disciplines to produce …

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Mary Nichols gets mad

Amid the general relief that California’s legislature has finally passed a budget, our state’s (and nation’s?) chief air & climate conscience makes some serious objections: California’s proposed budget contains a major provision that would weaken air pollution regulations while saving the construction industry millions of dollars. The measure, largely overlooked in a public debate focused on …

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CPUC Should Set a Date for Closing Aliso Canyon

A proposed decision on the gas facility gives too much deference to SoCalGas regarding the future of gas demand and misses an opportunity to set a clear mandate.

NEPA and Loper Deference (Part II)

Guest contributor Justin Pidot outlines what losing CEQ’s NEPA authority means for interagency coordination and efficiency.

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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

CLEE’s Global Forum for Sustainable Batteries releases a 2040 Sustainable Battery Vision

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.

Neither carbon pricing nor a mass climate movement can drive effective climate policy on their own

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

A proposed decision on the gas facility gives too much deference to SoCalGas regarding the future of gas demand and misses an opportunity to set a clear mandate.

Guest contributor Justin Pidot outlines what losing CEQ’s NEPA authority means for interagency coordination and efficiency.

Losing the farm to PFAS, or losing PFAS on the farm?

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

The election was largely a disaster. But we’ve also seen some positive developments.

Slower, less certain, and less equitable–with a new focus on local leadership

More than 500 Rights of Nature laws and policies have been passed globally. Here’s how to make sense of this nascent movement — or movements.

The doctrine has been hailed by conservatives. But it may come back to bite them.

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.