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California Environmental Blueprint: Protect and Restore Funding
This post is part of an ongoing series on our Environmental Blueprint for California, released by UCLA Law last week. I’ll talk about the first–and, in many ways, most fundamental–recommendation in our paper: that Governor Brown do what he can to protect and restore stable, robust funding for our State’s core environmental initiatives. My coauthors and …
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CONTINUE READINGUCLA Law releases new environmental blueprint for California
In the looming battle over California’s budget, will there be room for environmental protections? What should Governor Brown’s top-priority environmental initatives be? UCLA Law released today “An Environmental Blueprint for California,” giving our view of the priorities Governor Brown should focus on to ensure the state’s environmental health in ways consistent with its economic prosperity. California faces difficult choices ahead. …
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CONTINUE READINGUCLA Law will host local government land use symposium on February 11
UCLA Law’s Evan Frankel Environmental Law and Policy Program is hosting a symposium about local government land use law on February 11, 2011. This event, Local Agencies on the Cutting Edge – Emerging Challenges to Local Land Use Authority: Proposition 26, the Public Trust Doctrine, RLUIPA, and Takings Law, will focus on issues of practical …
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CONTINUE READINGBottles and cans, bisphenol-A, and chemical regulation
The online magazine Yale Environment 360 has published an informative and rather frightening interview with Frederick vom Saal, a biologist at the University of Missouri’s Endocrine Disruptors Group, about bisphenol-A and what he sees as a completely broken regulatory system for managing hazards from chemicals. Elizabeth Kolbert, known recently for her stellar journalism in the New …
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CONTINUE READINGClimate Change and Providential Irony
Jed suggests that “the belief that climate change can’t be real because God made the earth for us to use is just one instance of a deep and old American practice of enlisting nature to uphold our cultural and political identities – to prove that the world is made for people like us.” That may be …
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CONTINUE READINGGuest blogger Jed Purdy
We’re pleased to host Professor Jedediah Purdy of Duke Law School as a guest blogger. Jed is an accomplished scholar and big thinker with a distinctive voice: in his own words, he is a “farm boy (providential laborer), high-country devotee (Romantic), law professor (progressive technocrat), and student of environmental problems.” We’ve had only one guest …
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CONTINUE READINGUCLA Sustainable Technology and Policy Program (STPP): New interdisciplinary program of UCLA Schools of Law and Public Health
The UCLA Sustainable Technology and Policy Program (STPP) has just launched its new website. STPP is an interdisciplinary program based in the UCLA School of Law and the School of Public Health, with partners and affiliated faculty across the UCLA campus. The program’s goal is to promote public health and environmental protection by developing and promoting …
CONTINUE READINGWhat Would Conservative Environmental Policy Look Like?
Now that the Republican Party is set to take control of the House, and maybe the Senate, we might want to ask what we might mean by a “conservative” environmental policy. I was thinking about this question the other day, and then by chance came across this passage from Russell Kirk’s major work, The Conservative …
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CONTINUE READINGWhy Maureen Gorsen is wrong: Prop 26 will undermine environmental regulation
Followers of this blog know that, yesterday, UCLA Law released an analysis of Proposition 26’s impacts on state funding for environmental and public health programs. Today, the Yes on 26 campaign struck back with a press release in which Maureen Gorsen suggested that we failed to understand Prop 26 and ignored facts. (The Yes on …
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CONTINUE READINGA new issue of Ecology Law Quarterly
Ecology Law Quarterly volume 37, number 3 is now on the streets (or at least on the web). Check out these articles: Background Principles, Takings, and Libertarian Property: a Response to Professor Huffman, Michael C. Blumm & J.B. Ruhl Read Article (PDF) Ways of Seeing in Environmental Law: How Deforestation Became an Object of Climate …
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