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Is Brazil Ready for COP30? No One Is Ready for COP30

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

It’s officially less than 6 months until COP30 — when tens of thousands of people will descend on the Brazilian city of Belém for the annual UN climate conference — and no one is ready. For one thing, Belém is an impoverished city of 2.5 million that can’t build enough hotels for the 50,000 expected delegates …

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The Good, the Bad and the Utter Contempt

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

The news this week has me remembering my grandpa teaching a young me to turn off the tap while brushing my teeth. (Hey, I was an ignorant East Coast kid.) This was in California’s Central Valley around 1990 when drought conditions flared and the federal government cut water deliveries. What was the news story? What …

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MAGA vs NOAA, Executive Orders, and Growing IRA Support

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

Trump wants to “Make Weather a Mystery Again.” The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAA’s climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. fossil fuel production, according …

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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.

Is Trump Good for the Oil Industry?

Not particularly, it would appear. If there’s an effect, it’s not big enough to hit the eyes.

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.

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

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

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

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The Administration is devoted to destroying urban life: that puts it with many of history’s worst regimes

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

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.

Not particularly, it would appear. If there’s an effect, it’s not big enough to hit the eyes.

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.