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Happy 50th Anniversary, Federal Clean Water Act

One of America’s Foundational Environmental Laws Has Proven Transformational, But Requires Updating a Half-Century Later

The Clean Water Act (CWA), one of the nation’s most important environmental laws, is 50 years old today. It’s proven to be one of the most successful of America’s bedrock federal environmental statutes. But the CWA is far from perfect, needs some important updating, and will probably never fully achieve the aspirational goals Congress proclaimed …

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Commemorating the National Environmental Policy Act’s 50th Anniversary

Celebrating NEPA: America’s Most Transformative, Overarching & Catalytic Environmental Law

On a snowy New Year’s Day in 1970–50 years ago today–then-President Richard Nixon signed into law the National Environmental Policy Act. NEPA’s passage marked the beginning of America’s modern environmental law era. It was followed by Congressional passage of a series of other federal environmental laws over the next decade–major statutes that to this day …

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Commemorating a Major Environmental Disaster–One With a Transformative Legacy

1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill Sparked the Beginning of America’s Modern Environmental Era

This week marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most serious and consequential environmental disasters in American history–the Santa Barbara offshore oil spill of 1969. On January 28, 1969, an offshore oil rig (Platform A) owned and operated by the Union Oil Company and operating in federally-controlled waters in the Santa Barbara Channel off …

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How California (and the World) Get to 30×30

COP15 in Montreal ended with a pledge to protect 30 percent of the planet by 2030. UCLA student analysis shows what we can learn from California’s own plan.

What Is Water Use, Anyway?

President Richard Nixon

One of America’s Foundational Environmental Laws Has Proven Transformational, But Requires Updating a Half-Century Later

Celebrating NEPA: America’s Most Transformative, Overarching & Catalytic Environmental Law

1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill Sparked the Beginning of America’s Modern Environmental Era

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COP15 in Montreal ended with a pledge to protect 30 percent of the planet by 2030. UCLA student analysis shows what we can learn from California’s own plan.

We Have Met The Enemy, And He Is Us

The GOP’s effort cancel a pension reg illustrates the evils of the Congressional Review Act.

The president talks up his climate laws without saying “climate.” Can the U.S. meet its climate goals without telling voters about them?

Black figures played a role in the early years of environmentalism, before it even had a name.

In California, They Are

Local measures like Measure W are working. But more needs to be done to capture stormwater and rainwater.

Five decades back, the country was in the midst of unprecedented environmental ferment.

The first in a series that examines the hype around hydrogen production.

The EU has taken a major step to pressure global industries to clean up their act.

The first in a series that examines the hype around hydrogen production.

New House Rule Designed To Cause Dysfunction

Local measures like Measure W are working. But more needs to be done to capture stormwater and rainwater.

Gavin Newsom Abandons His Climate Commitments To Favor His Billionaire Contributors

In California, They Are

Interpreting the association between conservatism and COVID death rates.

Black figures played a role in the early years of environmentalism, before it even had a name.

California “YIGBY” Bill Could Empower Churches To Add Affordable Housing

The president talks up his climate laws without saying “climate.” Can the U.S. meet its climate goals without telling voters about them?

Leaving UCLA to join Earthjustice is exciting, and bittersweet, for me