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Is Saving Lives Unconstitutional? A Response to John Yoo

Takings law is complicated, but the answer to this question is clear. The answer is no.

Like others on the extreme right, the Hoover Institution is campaigning against “stay at home” orders because they cost too much money. Regrettably, the most recent argument to this effect on their website is by my colleague John Yoo. He argues that the Constitution requires states to compensate business owners for their losses. That’s simply …

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Interpreting Models of Coronavirus Spread

Models are crucial to making policy decisions during the epidemic, but you have to know how to use them.

This post works through an exercise in how to use and interpret models of disease spread. Here are the takeaways for policy analysis: You need to know about a model’s sensitivity. Particularly in settings where the specific numbers really matter, such as forecasting how many hospital beds will be needed, it’s important to take into …

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Transit-Oriented Development Shouldn’t Be A Coronavirus Casualty

California still needs more housing close to transit.

In recent weeks, California has emerged as one center of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it continues to face challenges that existed long before the disease reached the state. Two serious ones: how California will meet its ever more stringent greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, and how the state will manage to provide affordable housing for …

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Uncertainty in the Age of Coronavirus

There’s a lot we don’t know at this point. How should we deal with that?

Knowledge about the coronavirus is limited but growing. In the meantime, how should we cope with this uncertainty? I can’t give you psychological advice, but I can say something about how to think about this uncertainty. How to make decisions under uncertainty is something we know a lot about from the environmental sphere. Uncertainty is …

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What is Life Like Inside Trump’s EPA?

Three EPA employees talk about DOGE, work anxiety, regulatory rollbacks, and the impact on protecting health and the environment.

Tracking the Trump Administration

Rollbacks of Climate, Energy, and Environmental Policies and Investments

Dissecting the Attacks on the Endangerment Finding

EPA has identified four different arguments against the endangerment finding. None have merit.

The Top-Ten Lower Court Decisions on Environmental Law

Don’t let the headlines deceive you. It’s not just the Supreme Court that shapes environmental law.

Make America’s Environment Filthy Again

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has launched a full-scale attack on climate, air and water pollution.

What is the scope of the Congressional Review Act?

Possible implications of expanding the CRA to the California waivers, and beyond

And The Grift Goes On – This Time on Public Lands

Trump’s alleged plan for affordable housing on federal property is one more brick in a wall of corruption.

CEQA and infill development

SB 607 is an excellent beginning for reforming CEQA to facilitate residential infill development

Undermining Science in the Name of Ideology

There’s no room in MAGA for free scientific inquiry.

Disappointed in National Leadership? Look to States

With nations lagging behind on climate, states and provinces are coming up with investment opportunities to protect forests and ecosystems internationally.

Public Health

Takings law is complicated, but the answer to this question is clear. The answer is no.

Models are crucial to making policy decisions during the epidemic, but you have to know how to use them.

California still needs more housing close to transit.

There’s a lot we don’t know at this point. How should we deal with that?

Join Our Mailing List

Climate policy is changing rapidly. Stay in the loop with expert analysis via email Monday - Friday.

TRENDING

Applying the CRA to the California waivers might open the door to Congressional review of permits more broadly

The Administration has made serious inroads on safeguards against infectious disease.

Possible implications of expanding the CRA to the California waivers, and beyond

Trump’s alleged plan for affordable housing on federal property is one more brick in a wall of corruption.

SB 607 is an excellent beginning for reforming CEQA to facilitate residential infill development

There’s no room in MAGA for free scientific inquiry.

EPA has identified four different arguments against the endangerment finding. None have merit.

With nations lagging behind on climate, states and provinces are coming up with investment opportunities to protect forests and ecosystems internationally.

The Current Overheated Housing Market in Los Angeles Demonstrates That Market-Rate Housing Can Reduce Rents

Three EPA employees talk about DOGE, work anxiety, regulatory rollbacks, and the impact on protecting health and the environment.

Three EPA employees talk about DOGE, work anxiety, regulatory rollbacks, and the impact on protecting health and the environment.

Rollbacks of Climate, Energy, and Environmental Policies and Investments

EPA has identified four different arguments against the endangerment finding. None have merit.

Don’t let the headlines deceive you. It’s not just the Supreme Court that shapes environmental law.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has launched a full-scale attack on climate, air and water pollution.

Possible implications of expanding the CRA to the California waivers, and beyond

Trump’s alleged plan for affordable housing on federal property is one more brick in a wall of corruption.

SB 607 is an excellent beginning for reforming CEQA to facilitate residential infill development

There’s no room in MAGA for free scientific inquiry.

With nations lagging behind on climate, states and provinces are coming up with investment opportunities to protect forests and ecosystems internationally.