This Week on Legal Planet

Lisa Heinzerling, Photo courtesy of The Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming

Jul 24 Moves at EPA
I would like to share news of three key appointments to the senior staff at EPA: Lisa Heinzerling, who has been named Associate Administrator for the… [read more]

Jul 23 Water for Power Plants: A Major Concern All of Its Own
As the demand for freshwater grows and supplies dwindle, should water use become a major factor in choosing new sources of electric power?  That is a… [read more]

Jul 23 How is Cap’n Trade’s brand faring? The Jon Stewart barometer
There’s been some good discussion of the pros and cons of the Waxman-Markey ACES bill at Ethan’s recent post criticizing cap-and-trade. … [read more]

Jul 22 US won’t appeal Casitas decision
Last month, when he posted about the Supreme Court taking up the Florida beach renourishment case, Rick noted the possibility that the Court might hear… [read more]

Jul 21 Time for mining law reform?
Hardrock mining (as opposed to oil and gas drilling) on federal land is a topic that rarely hits the national news. And there are plenty of other high… [read more]

Jul 20 New California offshore drilling part of budget deal?
Lost in the swirl of reports on what may, or may not, be part of the California budget deal legislators appear to be closing in on is this detail, reported… [read more]

Jul 20 Standing for trees, redux
The Sunday Boston Globe includes this lengthy piece by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow on the revival of arguments first made in the 1970s that nature should be… [read more]

Jul 20 Nate Silver’s Challenge to Climate Denialists: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
1. For each day that the high temperature in your hometown is at least 1 degree Fahrenheit above average, as listed by Weather Underground, you owe him… [read more]

Jul 19 Water wars, eastern style
Those of us in the west have grown used to thinking of water wars as a regional specialty. But they happen in the east too. Florida, Alabama, and Georgia… [read more]

Jul 19 Is India Going Green?
“We need to get our act together,” said Gauri Singh, joint secretary in India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, which was set… [read more]

Jul 19 Four Years Later, and Still No Real Plan
A new report by the National Research Council gives “thumbs down” to the Army Corps’ plans for preventing another Katrina disaster…. [read more]

Jul 18 Cronkite on Climate
Some people are calling him “the last journalist” because his breed of even-handed, fact-based report seems to be an endangered species. Be… [read more]

Jul 18 Deputy Director Named for CEQ
The White House has announced that Gary S. Guzy, former general counsel and counselor to the administrator of EPA during the Clinton administration and… [read more]

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