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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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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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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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California’s Water Rights System is Inequitable, Inadequate, and Possibly, About to Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

A more thorough history would include the settling and colonization of California by the Spanish (1500s) and Mexican (early 1800s) governments, but for brevity, I focus here on the intentional and duplicitous actions of the California state government (established in 1850) and its co-conspirator: the United States federal government.

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What’s Up With Water – August 23, 2021

Circle of Blue

The Taliban must also tread delicately in international politics, managing river systems that cross into Iran and the countries of Central Asia. The federal government marked the changing conditions recently, declaring a Tier 1 shortage for the lower Colorado River basin. More water news and analysis await you at circleofblue.org.

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A Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government. It is hard to understand precisely how CARB modeled Alternative 1. billion gallons.

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Chesapeake Bay Foundation: As 2025 Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Deadline Looms, Officials Propose Next Phase

PA Environment Daily

Despite progress, states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed will not meet commitments to reduce pollution to the Bay by a 2025 deadline. in partnership with the federal government, committed to a 2025 deadline to have the practices in place to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment pollution to the Bay.

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