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Grandma Saves The City!

New Data Shows Hope For Affordable Housing In the Most Unlikely Place: Los Angeles

It’s not often that you get some good planning news from Los Angeles, but at least if you believe the City’s numbers, there are some. The Planning Department’s latest housing numbers, from its year-end 2018 Quarterly Report, state that in light of SB 1069 (Wieckowski), which substantially liberalized the construction of Accessory Dwellling Units (ADUs), …

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Some Thoughts About “The Pursuit of Happiness”

Without ever really stopping to think about it, I always assumed that the right to the pursuit of happiness meant freedom from governmental restrictions on your activities. (Since Thomas Jefferson was the author and was always extolling the life of the yeoman farmer, I guess I pictured this as the legal right to cut down …

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On the First Monday in October, the Sacketts Head to the Supreme Court a Second Time

Sackett v. EPA–the Most Important Environmental Case on the Justices’ Current Docket–Will Answer the Key Question of How Far Federal Wetlands Regulation Extends Under the Clean Water Act

Senate 2022: Georgia

The environmentalist incumbent faces a tight race.

Senate 2022: Nevada.

A tight race between two low-key candidates.

U.C. Davis Law School to Host “Clean Water Act at 50” Conference

Interdisciplinary Event Will Assess Landmark Law’s Past, Assess Its Future

Addressing Livestock Methane in California

New CLEE/UCLA report identifies policy solutions to reduce emissions | Webinar Nov. 10

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Deep Uncertainty

How should agencies take into account “the things we know we don’t know”?

Where Are They Now?

Remember Trump’s appointees — Pruitt, Zinke, and the rest? Here’s where they went afterwards.

Senate 2022: Arizona

In a tight race, the incumbent faces a pro-drilling, pro-fracking, pro-nuclear advocate.

Animal Cruelty and Interstate Commerce

A sleeper Supreme Court case could impact state climate legislation.

Two Months from Election Day

Who will get control of the Senate? And why does that matter for the environment?

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New Data Shows Hope For Affordable Housing In the Most Unlikely Place: Los Angeles

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Sackett v. EPA–the Most Important Environmental Case on the Justices’ Current Docket–Will Answer the Key Question of How Far Federal Wetlands Regulation Extends Under the Clean Water Act

The environmentalist incumbent faces a tight race.

A tight race between two low-key candidates.

Interdisciplinary Event Will Assess Landmark Law’s Past, Assess Its Future

New CLEE/UCLA report identifies policy solutions to reduce emissions | Webinar Nov. 10

How should agencies take into account “the things we know we don’t know”?

Remember Trump’s appointees — Pruitt, Zinke, and the rest? Here’s where they went afterwards.

In a tight race, the incumbent faces a pro-drilling, pro-fracking, pro-nuclear advocate.

A sleeper Supreme Court case could impact state climate legislation.

Who will get control of the Senate? And why does that matter for the environment?

Remember Trump’s appointees — Pruitt, Zinke, and the rest? Here’s where they went afterwards.

“Job-killing regulation”? That’s not really what the evidence tells us.

Who will get control of the Senate? And why does that matter for the environment?

A sleeper Supreme Court case could impact state climate legislation.

Interdisciplinary Event Will Assess Landmark Law’s Past, Assess Its Future

Sackett v. EPA–the Most Important Environmental Case on the Justices’ Current Docket–Will Answer the Key Question of How Far Federal Wetlands Regulation Extends Under the Clean Water Act