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Decriminalizing Our Public Lands

According to media reports, government fire investigations reveal that the recent, extensive brush fires that have destroyed nearly 100,000 acres in Santa Barbara County, California, were ignited as a result of illegal marijuana operations being conducted on federal forest lands. As news accounts point out, clandestine drug operations carried out on public lands may be …

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Environmental Hypocrisy

Recently, CBS’s 60 Minutes ran a story on the current environmental damages litigation 30,000 Ecuadorians are bringing in that country’s courts against Chevron. The case arises out the toxic oil wastes a Chevron subsidiary left behind in the Ecuadorian rain forest following decades of oil production deep in the headwaters of the Amazon. The plaintiffs, …

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A Supreme Court Speed-Bump for Coeur Alaska

With the U.S. Supreme Court’s issuance of its major CERCLA opinion yesterday in Burlington Northern, the Court has now decided four of the five major environmental cases on its docket this Term. But a little-noticed order from the Court–also issued yesterday–suggests that the Court is struggling mightily with the fifth and final case, Coeur Alaska, …

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Exxon Valdez: 20 Years Later – Lessons Learned

Today commemorates a sad and calamitous event in American environmental history: the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska’s Prince William Sound. The key facts of that ecological disaster, recounted in yesterday’s New York Times, are by now well-known: the spill of 11 million gallons of crude oil into near-shore ocean waters, …

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UCLA Law Clinics File Brief in the “Mecheros” Case

UCLA’s Human Rights Litigation Clinic and Environmental Law Clinic represent experts in a long-running case that seeks to stop harmful gas flaring in Ecuador.

The Arguments We Did and Didn’t Hear in Suncor v. Boulder

Oral arguments in the climate case before the Supreme Court gave hints to possible outcomes. But one of Boulder’s strong answers to the “tort suits are regulation” objection went unmade.

Permitting Reform Bill: NEPA Remedies

Efforts to tailor remedies for NEPA violations address an important issue, but may have misfired

Three Cheers for Two Clean Energy Victories for California

Gov. Newsom signed SB 1359 and AB 2313, two bills that the UCLA Emmett Institute had identified as clear winners for ratepayers.

A quick overview of the Senate permitting reform bill

Senate bill has major changes for NEPA, some changes for Clean Water Act

From Desert to Oasis?

Xi Jinping’s Tree-Planting Toast and the Future of U.S.-China Environmental Cooperation

Get Out the (Green) Vote

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

The Emmett Institute Celebrates Our “Genius” Alumna, Holly Buck

The latest MacArthur Fellows include Holly Jean Buck, a sociologist and energy policy researcher investigating the social, ethical, and political dimensions of emerging climate policies.

Some (Very) Modest Progress on EV Charging Policy

Three new bills address challenges, but bigger opportunities await

Who Cares About Affordability and Gas Prices? Not DOT

The Trump administration’s new CAFE standards actually make cars LESS fuel efficient, defy Congressional intent, and increase air and climate pollution.

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Support for Clean Energy from an Unexpected Direction

Oral arguments in the climate case before the Supreme Court gave hints to possible outcomes. But one of Boulder’s strong answers to the “tort suits are regulation” objection went unmade.

The new CAFE standards are a master class in pretending you’re implementing a law while totally sabotaging it.

Efforts to tailor remedies for NEPA violations address an important issue, but may have misfired

It’s well past time to end sacrifice zones, including the area that has been treated as “Mexico’s toilet bowl” for decades.

Gov. Newsom signed SB 1359 and AB 2313, two bills that the UCLA Emmett Institute had identified as clear winners for ratepayers.

Senate bill has major changes for NEPA, some changes for Clean Water Act

Xi Jinping’s Tree-Planting Toast and the Future of U.S.-China Environmental Cooperation

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

The election could be very close — or things could break hard for one party.

UCLA’s Human Rights Litigation Clinic and Environmental Law Clinic represent experts in a long-running case that seeks to stop harmful gas flaring in Ecuador.

Oral arguments in the climate case before the Supreme Court gave hints to possible outcomes. But one of Boulder’s strong answers to the “tort suits are regulation” objection went unmade.

Efforts to tailor remedies for NEPA violations address an important issue, but may have misfired

Gov. Newsom signed SB 1359 and AB 2313, two bills that the UCLA Emmett Institute had identified as clear winners for ratepayers.

Senate bill has major changes for NEPA, some changes for Clean Water Act

Xi Jinping’s Tree-Planting Toast and the Future of U.S.-China Environmental Cooperation

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

The latest MacArthur Fellows include Holly Jean Buck, a sociologist and energy policy researcher investigating the social, ethical, and political dimensions of emerging climate policies.

Three new bills address challenges, but bigger opportunities await

The Trump administration’s new CAFE standards actually make cars LESS fuel efficient, defy Congressional intent, and increase air and climate pollution.