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Yes, It’s That Time of Year Again

If you read Legal Planet, you know why the work we do matters.

Like everyone else, I’m sure you find fundraising appeals annoying. That’s why we only do them twice a year. But there couldn’t be a more important time for the work we do, given the urgency of the climate crisis and the ongoing policy disaster in D.C. Yes, we’re in the middle of a pandemic and …

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Grid Experts Weigh In on the Clean Power Plan Repeal and ACE Rule

UCLA Emmett faculty share expert voices in an amicus brief filed last week in the D.C. Circuit

Among the many Trump Administration rollbacks of climate regulation, a big one is its decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan and to replace it with a rule that does almost nothing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants. The electricity sector has made significant progress in reducing climate pollution recent years, but …

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Senate 2022: Pennsylvania

Two unconventional candidates face off in a crucial swing state.

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.

UCLA Emmett Institute

If you read Legal Planet, you know why the work we do matters.

UCLA Emmett faculty share expert voices in an amicus brief filed last week in the D.C. Circuit

TRENDING

Two unconventional candidates face off in a crucial swing state.

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.

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