SB 49
Does California need “Trump insurance”?
State legislature nears decision time over SB 49, which could protect California against federal environmental rollbacks
This Sacramento Bee article is remarkable in describing how aggressively the Trump Administration is now going after Californiaās efforts to protect the stateās natural resources, including its water resources (see also this LA Times article).Ā Interior Secretary Zinke is demanding that his agency look for ways to override California water law and force more water …
Continue reading “Does California need “Trump insurance”?”
CONTINUE READING“States’ Rights” and Environmental Law: California on the Front Lines
EPA’s Assault on Air Quality Protection Will Aim at California’s Standards, While Other States Have Given Up Their Authority to Protect Public Health and the Environment More Strictly
This article just published in theĀ Atlantic explains well one of the many ways that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt may attempt toĀ deeply harm our environment for decades to come: through declining to grant, or revoking, the waivers that allow California to regulate air pollution from new motor vehicle engines more strictly than the federal government does. …
Continue reading ““States’ Rights” and Environmental Law: California on the Front Lines”
CONTINUE READING