The Animal Agriculture Industry Undermines Climate Action - Legal Planet
Lessons learned from Big Oil can be applied to animal agriculture, writes Guest Contributor Alexander Wood, a UCLA Law student.| Legal Planet
Lessons learned from Big Oil can be applied to animal agriculture, writes Guest Contributor Alexander Wood, a UCLA Law student.| Legal Planet
Representational sovereignty, Indigenous rights, and ecocide are key to the climate obligations of states, our guest contributors write.| Legal Planet
"Unacceptable risks." Developing countries at UNEA-6 lost patience with a Northern led, narrowly scientific, approach to solar geoengineering| Legal Planet
The US and Africa fought over how, and even whether, to assess the risks of solar geoengineering at the UN Environment Assembly| Legal Planet
A new report recommends urgent action to prevent triggering climate tipping points, but warns against relying on speculative geoengineering| Legal Planet
In the ABC debate, both candidates were asked directly, “What would you do to fight climate change?” Fracking got a lot of the focus.| Legal Planet
Late last week, attorneys representing children from around the nation filed a provocative new lawsuit in federal court, arguing that the Obama Administration is violating the children’s constitutional rights by not taking far more dramatic steps to curb greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change concerns. The newly-filed complaint in the lawsuit, Juliana ex rel. … Continue reading "And a Child Shall Sue Them: Ambitious New Climate Lawsuit Filed Against Obama Administration"| Legal Planet
The rapidly approaching electric vehicle (EV) transition that California and a dozen other states have committed to enact over the coming decade mounts pressure on state and local governments to deliver millions of new EV chargers across various location types. Homes constitute the core of a convenient and reliable charging network, and EV charging infrastructure … Continue reading "EV Charging Access for Multifamily Housing Residents"| Legal Planet
After many years of work, the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiments (SCoPEx) Advisory Committee concluded our work earlier this year after the research team at Harvard made the decision to cancel the experiment. I was a member of the Advisory Committee for much of its time, serving as chair and co-chair of the committee for … Continue reading "Reflections from a Member of the SCoPEx Advisory Committee"| Legal Planet
Biden has taken a serious shot at fulfilling the climate promises in the 2020 Democratic platform, with outsized success in some areas.| Legal Planet
When the Supreme Court overruled Chevron, what did the Court put in its place? Is the change that earthshaking or is it just a course-correction.| Legal Planet
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, in coordination with an equally myopic and partisan Florida Legislature, has approved new state legislation (HB 1645) that eliminates the term “climate change” from numerous existing Florida statutes that former Republican Governor Charlie Crist signed into law in 2008. The legislation, which takes effect on July 1st, is not just symbolic: … Continue reading "Florida Governor DeSantis’ Head-In-The-Sand Climate Change Policies"| Legal Planet
Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order that likely ends one of the most closely-watched climate change lawsuits in recent American legal history: Juliana v. United States. The background of this litigation–which was filed in federal district court in Oregon in 2015–has been analyzed at length in … Continue reading "Ninth Circuit Short-Circuits Juliana v. U.S. Climate Change Lawsuit"| Legal Planet
