2+ day, 47+ min ago  (439+ words) Dan Farber has written and taught on environmental and constitutional law as well as about contracts, jurisprudence and legislation. Currently at Berkeley Law, he has also spent time at Minnesota Law School (where he became the first Henry J. Fletcher Professor…...

3+ day, 39+ min ago  (431+ words) Returning the environmental justice function to the AO [EPA Administrator's Office], eliminating the stand-alone Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights." Trump did eliminate the environmental justice office, as recommended, but he went much further by eliminating environmental justice…...

3+ day, 43+ min ago  (218+ words) Welcome to "Energy Corner," an ongoing series from E-CELL at UCLA that explores policy ideas for making clean energy affordable for all Californians. Consumer advocates have pushed back on this asserted lack of jurisdiction. Even though large load customers take…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (358+ words) It's worth taking notice when any clean energy legislation is passing with bipartisan support in all kinds of states. Bills on balcony solar, also called plug-in solar, have been signed or moved forward in so many states around the country…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (179+ words) This is the second of two posts exploring whether the California Chamber of Commerce's ballot initiative to drastically reform CEQA might facilitate the construction of data centers in California." In the first post, I examined whether data centers fall within…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago  (191+ words) These state failure-to-warn claims stemmed largely from a 2015 conclusion by the World Health Organization's'International Agency for Research on Cancer'(IARC) that glyphosate is "probably carcinogenic to humans" " in contrast to EPA's continued claim that glyphosate is not carcinogenic. In my…...

1+ week, 46+ min ago  (254+ words) It would be naive to think that this is because of a willingness to sacrifice for global welfare. Instead, it reflects the Chinese leadership's views of China's economic and geopolitical interests." At the moment, however, those coincide with the imperative…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (144+ words) While no single solution exists to California's electricity affordability crisis, sustained effort by policymakers, regulators, and utilities can meaningfully lower costs and reduce the price of electricity for Californians. The report identified several potential reforms: Yet California must also find…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1572+ words) You might assume most musicians are silent on climate change and the environment. But you'd be wrong. This Climate Playlist spans from the 1960s to new releases out this month. In fact, a huge number of these tracks are from the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (466+ words) The energy transition is accelerating globally, despite Trump. We don't lack for bad news these days. Still, there are also good things happening. I've been putting together a list of things that are good news for the environment. "So put…...