This Week on Legal Planet

Photo: Remembering Ted Kennedy, Courtesy of The New York Times

Aug 27 Good fish news of the week
We know that environmentalists in general, and environmental lawyers in particular, typically seem to have nothing but bad news on their minds. So we’re… [read more]

Aug 27 The Kennedy seat
It may be gauche to admit to worrying about this so soon after Ted Kennedy’s death, but the conversations have already begun: How much harder will… [read more]

Aug 27 Q (circa 2100): Whatever Happened to Kansas? A: It Burned Up.
The Nature Conservancy has released a projection of business-as-usual climate impacts, which shows particularly heavy impacts in Kansas, Nebraska, and… [read more]

Aug 27 Openings for Env. Law Profs
The law school hiring season is beginning.  PrawfsBlawg lists names of hiring committee chairs and for many schools adds a list of fields that the school… [read more]

Aug 27 UCLA/Berkeley Law & Attorney General‘s Office release report recommending policies to encourage sustainable real estate development
For those of you who haven’t memorized the AB 32 scoping plan pie chart that details the sources of greenhouse gas emissions in California by sector… [read more]

Aug 26 UCLA environmental law journal publishes new work on personal norms and carbon emissions, and on other interesting topics
Following in Dan’s footsteps as promoters of our respective schools’ excellent environmental law journals, I’m proud to announce that… [read more]

Aug 25 More on the Chamber of Commerce’s extraordinary demand for a “Scopes trial” on climate change
UPDATE: regarding the standard of judicial review of any on-the-record hearing (discussed below), see the comments: commenter Steve Taber disagrees with… [read more]

Aug 25 Would a CO2 “monkey trial” improve scientific integrity and transparency?
As reported in the L.A. Times and Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has petitioned EPA to hold a trial-type hearing before finalizing… [read more]

Aug 25 An Indian Cap-and-Trade System?
India has approved in principle new trading plans centred on energy efficiency as part of efforts to shift to a greener economy to fight climate change… [read more]

Aug 25 News of the Day
There’s a lot of interesting stuff out there.  Not as interesting as Legal Planet, maybe, but let’s give credit where credit is due.  Here… [read more]

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