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Legal Planet

It then tread water for a few years and began a steep decline in 2008, going from half of U.S. Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. Since around 2008, natural gas use has been the mirror image of coal use. electricity to about one-fifth today.

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Parson, Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law, has served in the Emmett Institute’s faculty leadership since he joined UCLA Law in 2012. Alex has also led trainings in environmental law for judges in both the U.S. Like Professors Boyd and Wang, Ted Parson shares a commitment to education, research, and public service.

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