Dan Farber May 21, 2026 Too Cheap to Meter? Unlimited energy abundance is more of a pipe dream than a realistic policy goal.
Evan George May 21, 2026 Hate the Gas Tax? Get to Know the Road Usage Charge The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.
Guest Contributor May 19, 2026 Protecting Consumers in the Electric Vehicle Transition UC Berkeley paper highlights opportunities for California to strengthen consumer protections in the EV transition.
Jason Gray May 18, 2026 Reducing Deforestation from California to Colombia and Beyond There are bright spots and opportunities for more work to do on improving data, governance, and access to finance.
Dan Farber May 18, 2026 How Trump Is Boosting Clean Energy Everywhere Else It’s partly the Iran war. But there’s also another reason.
Eric Biber May 14, 2026 Reforming CEQA Part 5 Creating greater clarity for thresholds of signficance, and default methodologies and mitigation measures
Dan Farber May 14, 2026 Trump versus Cost-Benefit Analysis EPA’s disavowal of CBA is the culmination of a longer assault.
Eric Biber May 13, 2026 Reforming CEQA Part 4 Providing greater clarity on the types of impacts covered by CEQA
Eric Biber May 13, 2026 Reforming CEQA Part 3 Adding more binding clear standards for CEQA plus focusing alternatives analysis
Evan George April 29, 2026 Does Taking Oil Money Disqualify You from Being Governor? The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.
Dan Farber April 27, 2026 An Encouraging Signal About Federal Preemption A new Supreme Court ruling should help states defend their climate laws.
Ted Parson April 27, 2026 How to Flip the Script for a Real Fossil Fuel Phaseout The First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels should look to the Montreal Protocol for a model.
William Boyd April 27, 2026 Roundup at the Supreme Court Bayer and its allies in the Trump Administration got their day in court.
Dan Farber April 30, 2026 The 2026 Election: Six Months to Go Here’s what things look like now, but a lot could change.
Eric Biber April 30, 2026 BACA makes the ballot Initiative to drastically change CEQA appears to have enough signatures to make ballot
Evan George May 6, 2026 Climate Journalism is “Breaking but Not Broken” The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.
Eric Biber May 10, 2026 Is BACA Constitutional? Limitations on judicial review in the initiative might violate separation of powers
Dan Farber May 11, 2026 Trump’s FEMA Review Trump’s FEMA Council has reported back. Its basic strategy is flawed.
Linnan Cao May 12, 2026 The Other Half of Climate: Policy, Capital, and the Race to Scale Superpollutant Solutions Learn how California is using satellite data to pull the emergency brake on global warming.