This Week on Legal Planet

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Jun 26 Move Over, Summer of Love. It’s Time for Power Flower
We tend to think of renewable power as coming in two sizes: single home-sized photovoltaic arrays, or big, remotely-located power plants.  Thus, we pour… [read more]

Jun 26 Climate bill up for a vote
Looks like the House leadership is taking its chances on a vote on Waxman-Markey’s climate bill today or tomorrow, despite some uncertainty about… [read more]

Jun 25 The costs and benefits of coal
It was widely reported earlier this week that outspoken NASA climate scientist James Hansen and 30 others were arrested at a West Virginia coal operation… [read more]

Jun 24 New EPA air toxics report presents sobering assessment of cancer risk
A new U.S. EPA report released today presents a scary picture of our exposure to hazardous pollutants in our air.  The National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment… [read more]

Jun 24 Preble’s mouse jumps back into the courtroom
Five environmental groups — NRDC, Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Native Ecosystems, and Biodiversity Conservation… [read more]

Jun 24 Is Waxman-Markey Even Worth It?
“Waxman also consented to block EPA from calculating “indirect” greenhouse gas emissions from land-use changes when implementing the… [read more]

Jun 24 An Invitation to Review the Supreme Court?s Environmental Record
This has been a blockbuster year in the U.S. Supreme Court for environmental law and policy. In the Term that concludes this month, the justices have… [read more]

Jun 24 Fisheries governance and sustainability
An interesting new paper by a group at Dalhousie University compares several key aspects of fisheries management with a measure of the probability that… [read more]

Jun 23 Clean Water Restoration Act clears committee
The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works has voted 12-7 to send the Clean Water Restoration Act, S 787, to the full chamber. The bill would… [read more]

Jun 23 Waxman-Markey May Lower Household Costs
In another report issued today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency counters the predictions of some critics of climate change legislation by concluding… [read more]

Jun 23 Couer Alaska and mountaintop removal mining
As Dan noted below, yesterday the Supreme Court decided its final environmental case of the year, Coeur Alaska v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council.… [read more]

Jun 23 The Low Cost of Climate Legislation
According to a new CBO estimate reported by the Washington Post:Climate-change legislation would cost the average household $175 a year by 2020… [read more]

Jun 22 Comment Period for Endangerment Finding Expires Tomorrow
GOP lawmakers and industry sources have requested unsuccessfully that the comment period be extended… [read more]

Jun 22 News Flash: Supreme Court Decides Coeur Alaska
In an opinion by Justice Kennedy, the Supreme Court decided two issues in this case, over a dissent by Justice Ginsburg. The first was whether the Clean Air Act… [read more]

Jun 21 Climate Report from Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen has issued a synthesis report on Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions.… [read more]

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