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Legal Planet
DECEMBER 20, 2022
On Monday, environmental-justice advocates filed a petition drafted by two of our amazing UCLA Environmental Law Clinic students, Sarah Repko and Monica Heger, opening litigation to improve monitoring of petroleum refineries in Southern California. California, which is the third-largest refiner of crude oil in the U.S., Download as PDF.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
The California Legislature recently enacted, and Governor Gavin Newsom last week signed into law, two major housing reform measures. SB 9 and SB 10 represent California’s most transformative new housing laws in decades, and are a belated but welcome legislative response to the state’s longstanding housing crisis.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 9, 2024
When our family participated in the Science March at the Minnesota Capitol in 2017, one of our signs said, “What do we want – Science Based Policy! These Air Emission Reporting Requirements describe how, when, which, and how often air pollutant emissions are estimated and reported from polluting facilities.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 14, 2023
Among the commenters was my colleague Sam Wilson , who passionately and effectively called on the EPA to follow the science and enact the strongest air pollution standards to protect people’s health. pollution, half of the deaths are attributable to the burning of fossil fuels. pollution is, even at low levels of concentration.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Municipal zoning laws, meanwhile, allowed companies to build power plants and other industrial facilities in those same neighborhoods. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a 2017 PSE Healthy Energy study found that nearly half of California’s gas power plants are in communities that are among the state’s 25 percent most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals. Gasoline consumption is down by more than two billion gallons per year since 2017, when 15.6 billion gallons were sold in the state.
Legal Planet
JULY 29, 2021
UCLA Professor of Law William Boyd. William Boyd is Professor of Law and Michael J. Klein Chair in Law at UCLA Law, with a joint appointment as Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability ; Alex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA Law. UCLA Professor of Law Alex Wang.
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