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Legal Planet, a collaboration between UC Berkeley School of Law and UCLA School of Law, provides insight and analysis on energy and environmental law and policy. The blog draws upon the individual research strengths and vast expertise of the law schools’ legal scholars and think tanks.
Our goal is to fill a unique space on the blogosphere, not only by bridging the worlds of law and policy, but also by translating the latest developments in a way that’s understandable to a mass audience.
We write about Supreme Court decisions, regulatory actions, and state and national legislation that affects water resource management, toxic waste disposal, renewable energy, air quality, land use, and more.
The global challenge of climate change is the driver behind our work.
Outstanding job, folks. Legal Planet is now my Google homepage. I especially like three features:
the timeliness: latest developments that are hard to track in various news sources
the commentary: perspectives that put the items in context
the format: very easy to navigate
- Paul Steinberg, Associate Professor of Political Science & Environmental Policy, Harvey Mudd College
Great site. I do have one question though. When is an environmental lawyer going to step up and ask questions about these high altitude sprayings called “chemtrails” that are occurring in most big cities of the world? What are they, what’s being released, who is doing it, and why? Our air is being poisoned and we are ignoring it. Why?
Would any of you wonderful folks have time to, if it’s worthy, provide insights on these to recent legal challenges involving failure to mitigate for climate change. We – Heartwood – have considered this type of action with respect to the land and resource management plans of specific national forests.
http://www.martenlaw.com/news/?20090826-lawsuits-to-block-project-approvals
Best enviro law blog site around! Thanks for your efforts.
alexhroz: There is no such thing as chemtrails. That’s why environmental lawyers aren’t bothered about them. They are actually just contrails and if people would bother to do even the most cursory research they would discover the scientific reason for why some trails persist for hours and others fade away quickly. There are enough real things to be concerned about without wasting valuable worrying energy on imaginary problems.