The Drain

The Good, the Bad and the Utter Contempt

The Drain

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

The news this week has me remembering my grandpa teaching a young me to turn off the tap while brushing my teeth. (Hey, I was an ignorant East Coast kid.) This was in California’s Central Valley around 1990 when drought conditions flared and the federal government cut water deliveries.  What was the news story? What …

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100 Days of Fear & Loathing in Climate World

The Drain

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

Are you tired of the words “100 days”? “In his first 100 days the Trump administration has slashed federal agencies, canceled national reports, and yanked funding from universities,” Grist puts it. “One hundred days of anti-environmental mayhem,” says Dan Farber at Legal Planet. My UCLA colleague Ann Carlson is quoted by the New York Times …

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Day After Earth Day, the Climate Pope, and the 89%

The Drain

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

Environmental journalists everywhere are breathing easier this morning. They made it through Earth Day — one of two insufferable seasons of cliche, inane PR pitches clogging their inboxes. (The other? The 2-week UN Climate Conference each fall.) Environmental advocates are breathing a little easier too, because the White House blinked first in the war of …

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