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The Turning Tide

Last week featured some remarkable developments relating to climate policy.

Some events last week sent a strong signal that the tide is turning against fossil fuels. Each of the events standing alone would have been noteworthy. The clustering of these events dramatizes an important shift. To paraphrase Churchill, this may not be beginning of the end for fossil fuels, but at least it is the …

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Prop 23 and the Oil Companies

It is frequently said that “the oil companies” are financing Prop 23. This turns out to be a bit of an overgeneralization. According to Greenwire, While some companies are supporting Proposition 23, Shell Oil Co. opposes it, Chevron Corp. is officially neutral, Exxon Mobil Corp. and BP PLC have decided not to get involved and …

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California Enacts Historic Housing Reform Laws

Legislation Promotes New Housing, Infill Development, & Reduced Air Pollution

The Last Four Years — and the Next Four

How did our predictions about Trump hold up? What should we expect for Biden?

Citations for environmental and energy law scholars 2021

The most-cited environmental and energy law professors from 2016-2020

Is the ‘Vaccine Mandate’ Legal?

Despite all the political huffing and puffing, Biden’s order has a solid legal basis.

Vacancy

A Key White House regulatory office has remained unfilled for a record time.

Labor and the Environment

Let’s talk about jobs and environmental protection.

Tackling Agricultural Methane: An Overview of the Science

Promising strategies and technologies to address an urgent climate priority

Disaster Mismanagement

12 Lessons from the COVID response in how NOT to manage a crisis.

California’s Recall Election Has Serious Climate and Environmental Implications

A new governor wouldn’t disrupt core mandates but could redirect spending and priorities

Another Worrisome Signal from the Supreme Court

Phrases that should frighten environmentalists: “Shadow docket ” “Major questions doctrine”

Shell Oil and Climate Change

Last week featured some remarkable developments relating to climate policy.

TRENDING

Legislation Promotes New Housing, Infill Development, & Reduced Air Pollution

How did our predictions about Trump hold up? What should we expect for Biden?

The most-cited environmental and energy law professors from 2016-2020

Despite all the political huffing and puffing, Biden’s order has a solid legal basis.

A Key White House regulatory office has remained unfilled for a record time.

Let’s talk about jobs and environmental protection.

Promising strategies and technologies to address an urgent climate priority

12 Lessons from the COVID response in how NOT to manage a crisis.

A new governor wouldn’t disrupt core mandates but could redirect spending and priorities

Phrases that should frighten environmentalists: “Shadow docket ” “Major questions doctrine”

The law too often restricts resource rights on public lands to extraction activities and precludes conservation

A scenario exercise on unauthorized use of solar geoengineering

Some cases belong to the environmentalist legal canon, others to an anti-canon of reviled precedents.

Promising strategies and technologies to address an urgent climate priority

The most-cited environmental and energy law professors from 2016-2020