This Week on Legal Planet

Jonathan Zasloff highlights Senegal's infrastructure woes.

Jun 25 Carly Fiorina and the Environment
Carly Fiorina’s website devotes considerable attention to energy and environment.  Here are the high points: She opposes cap-and-trade, which she… [read more]

Jun 25 Mayor Villaraigosa, This is NOT How You Do Environmental Policy
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa likes to talk green at every opportunity, but most of his environmental initiatives fall flat due to lack of… [read more]

Jun 24 10 Wasted Years of Subway Service to the San Fernando Valley
The Source, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s in-house blog, proudly links to an article on the ten-year anniversary of the… [read more]

Jun 24 News Flash: Richard Lazarus to be Executive Director of Deepwater Horizon Team
DOE has announced: The co-chairs of the bipartisan National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling have selected a highly… [read more]

Jun 23 Not Working on the Railroad
Thies, where I was staying on my American Jewish World Service delegation trip to Senegal, is about 36 miles from the Senegalese capital, Dakar.  That… [read more]

Jun 23 Economy v. Environment Directly at Issue in Lifting of Drilling Ban
As oil continues to gush into the gulf  – more bad news on that front today – a federal judge with financial ties to the oil drilling industry… [read more]

Jun 23 Economy v. Environment Directly at Issue in Lifting of Drilling Ban
As oil continues to gush into the gulf — more bad news on that front today — a federal judge with financial ties to the oil drilling industry… [read more]

Jun 21 “Africa Is Dying”
This was the sobering message I received last week as part of a delegation to Senegal from the American Jewish World Service. Senegal is in the Sahel,… [read more]

Jun 21 As the Gulf Bleeds Crude Oil, Alberta’s Tar Sands Provide a Test
If you were President Obama, what would you do about the tar sands fields in Alberta?  He is being asked to approve or reject a pipeline extension that… [read more]

Jun 21 U.S. Supreme Court Issues Decision in Monsanto case
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision today in Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms,   a case involving Monsanto’s efforts to introduce Roundup… [read more]

Jun 21 Cara Won’t Be Blogging for a While, With Good Reason
I am happy to report that Cara Horowitz, the Executive Director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA Law, and her husband… [read more]

Jun 21 Jerry Brown and the Environment
Unlike Meg Whitman’s website, Brown’s website features the environment front and center, with long lists of his environmental accomplishments… [read more]

Jun 21 Fumigants Take Center Stage in California
I wrote previously about the strange story of methyl iodide, a chemical purposely used by researchers to cause cancer in labs, being proposed for use… [read more]

Jun 19 Meg Whitman and the Environment
I thought it would be useful to review the environmental positions of the key candidates in California.  My goal is to be informative rather than evaluative… [read more]

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