This Week On Legal Planet

Climate Change & Africa's Natural Resources. Artist: Rose Fyson, Melbourne, Australia for Oxfam

Oct 23 More Environmental “Poetry”

There once was a climate denier

Who said, “Let the carbon go higher.

From the facts let us run,

‘Cause coal’s cheap by the ton,

And who cares if the planet’s on fire?”

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Oct 22 Two Important New Papers About Climate Policy
The latest issue of Science has two key papers on climate policy.  First, Tim Searchinger, Dan Kammen (a faculty member at ERG), and others argue that… [read more]

Oct 22 UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy launches new website, publishes climate policy issue
Forgive me for a little boasting about our great student-run environmental law journal, which has just launched a new website with downloadable content… [read more]

Oct 22 New GAO Report on Adaptation
The challenges faced by federal, state, and local officials in their efforts to adapt fell into three categories, based on GAO’s analysis of questionnaire… [read more]

Oct 21 Oil Shale, Greenhouse Gas, and Federal Lands
Back in 2005, a Rand report assessed the merits of pursuing oil shale (a rock formation particularly prevalent in the U.S.) as an option for extracting… [read more]

Oct 21 Saving the Polar Bear: The Saga Continues
The Obama administration today proposed protecting more than 200,000 square miles in Alaska as critical habitat for the polar bear — an area the… [read more]

Oct 20 The New Top 40: Facing Up to the Worst Coal-Fired Powerplants
People are talking about it in emails and all over the blogosphere – it turns out that coal-fired electric power is not as cheap as many people want… [read more]

Oct 19 The Kivalina Climate Change Lawsuit: Wrong Is Right
As Holly noted the other day, Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong of the Northern District of California has thrown out the Kivalina tribe’s climate change… [read more]

Oct 19 Some Environmental Haiku

Early October:

Copenhagen lies ahead.

Still Congress dithers.

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Oct 18 Adapting to Climate Change? Should the States or the Feds Take the Lead?
A great deal of attention has been devoted to federalism issues relating to climate change mitigation. In contrast, the federalism dimension of adaptation… [read more]

Oct 17 EPA threatens a mountaintop removal veto
Early on in the Obama administration, EPA did some inconclusive dancing and shuffling about its role in overseeing the issuance of Clean Water Act section… [read more]

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