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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 To Botch A CEQA Analysis

LA Metro’s draft EIR for the crucial Sepulveda Transit Corridor is thorough and careful, but it misses a key point: heavy rail is environmentally superior.

What Have We Learned About Rebuilding from Fire?

Woolsey Fire survivors reflect on the rebuilding process and what might help rebuild more resiliently after the January fires.

Trump’s Funniest Executive Orders

Yes, they’re destructive and often cruel. But sometimes, they’re also unintentionally funny.

Why is EPA at War with Its Own Employees?

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

We Built This City On Urban Form

California’s CEQA reforms will require rethinking how we code our cities

Thoughts on AB 131

Overall a good bill, but the definition of natural and protected lands is inadequate

Here’s How the Palisades and Altadena Can Rebuild Better

In partnership with UCLA, the Blue Ribbon Commission on Climate Action and Fire-Safe Recovery has released its final recommendations.

Can Public Ownership Fix Our Electricity Woes? It’s Complicated

New UCLA report “Power Struggle: California’s Electric Utility Ownership Dilemma” by Sylvie Ashford, Mohit Chhabra, and Ruthie Lazenby

The Emperor’s New Endangerment Theory (Part III)

How did EPA get to the absurd conclusion that 1.5 billion tons of carbon emissions aren’t significant? Well might you ask.

The Emperor’s New Endangerment Theory (Part II)

To justify a decision not to regulate CO2 from power plants, EPA had to twist statutory language beyond all recognition.

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

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Property used to be a central conservative concern. Not so much these days.

California’s CEQA reforms will require rethinking how we code our cities

Yes, they’re destructive and often cruel. But sometimes, they’re also unintentionally funny.

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

The UCLA Emmett Institute helps sponsor and organize the Degrees Global Forum, the largest event of its kind to date.

California has long leaned heavily on CEQA to cover gaps in other environmental laws. That will have to change when we reform CEQA.

Trump replaced a coherent set of rules governing the executive branch with a welter of agency-specific regulations.

The Founding Fathers were more environmentally aware than we give them credit for. Woke, even.

According to the D.C. Circuit, the answer is no.

The latest failed effort at privatization of federal lands shows the modern political weakness of land transfer movements

LA Metro’s draft EIR for the crucial Sepulveda Transit Corridor is thorough and careful, but it misses a key point: heavy rail is environmentally superior.

Woolsey Fire survivors reflect on the rebuilding process and what might help rebuild more resiliently after the January fires.

Yes, they’re destructive and often cruel. But sometimes, they’re also unintentionally funny.

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

California’s CEQA reforms will require rethinking how we code our cities

Overall a good bill, but the definition of natural and protected lands is inadequate

In partnership with UCLA, the Blue Ribbon Commission on Climate Action and Fire-Safe Recovery has released its final recommendations.

New UCLA report “Power Struggle: California’s Electric Utility Ownership Dilemma” by Sylvie Ashford, Mohit Chhabra, and Ruthie Lazenby

How did EPA get to the absurd conclusion that 1.5 billion tons of carbon emissions aren’t significant? Well might you ask.

To justify a decision not to regulate CO2 from power plants, EPA had to twist statutory language beyond all recognition.