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Project 2025 Envisions Eliminating Civil Service Protection for Thousands

Legal Planet

UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, & Environment (CLEE) is sponsoring a series of papers evaluating aspects of Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation publication, entitled “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” which has received attention in the Presidential election campaign. Political loyalists would take their place.

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Rightwing Authoritarianism vs the Environment

Legal Planet

Project 2025 favors authoritarian presidential rule. There’s no logical connection between a belief in authoritarian government, upholding traditional hierarchies, and views about protecting the environment or the reality of climate change. Thus, the reasons must relate to psychology or political science, not philosophy.

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Governing Emissions Trading in California and China

Legal Planet

Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program. – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in. Most ETS have fallen on the prices-too-low side.

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Statement: The Federal EV Incentive Program Pause was Preventable

Enviromental Defense

The federal government has long known that due to rapidly growing electric vehicle sales, funding for the iZEV program was going to run out early in 2025. There was an opportunity in Finance Minister Chrystia Freelands recent Fall Economic Statement to include stopgap funding to top up the program and prevent this from occurring.

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Ask A Scientist: How Can Scientists Drive Change Through Climate Lawsuits? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Governments representing more than a quarter of the US population have filed lawsuits against major corporations including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP, seeking justice for the harm caused by their lies about the dangers of their products. In short, climate litigation is actively shaping climate action today.

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Comment: NSAC Responds to Government Funding Deal 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

Faced with a generational opportunity to improve the futures of farm families nationwide, this deal instead prioritizes politics. Learn more and get involved at: [link] The post Comment: NSAC Responds to Government Funding Deal appeared first on National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.

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The Earth Day Women’s Summit Debuts at EarthX 2025 to Elevate Women’s Perspectives & Drive Solutions for Climate Change

Global Green

The Earth Day Womens Summit will feature top womens voices from the halls of business, government, civil society and media who are committed to addressing the climate crisis in ways that serve all socioeconomic levels, drawing from the influential and extensive networks of Electric LadiesPodcast and Global Green.