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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. Thus, the reasons must relate to psychology or political science, not philosophy. This research is suggestive, but my impression is that there is a lot we still don’t know about political psychology. It also wants to destroy environmental regulation, especially climate law.

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Unforced Variations: Apr 2025

Real Climate

Please try to stay focused on climate instead of generic (and tedious) political sniping. The post Unforced Variations: Apr 2025 first appeared on RealClimate. This month’s open thread for climate topics.

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No More ‘House of Horrors’ Thanks to These New Laws

Legal Planet

In addition to the Cosmetic Safety Act, The Toxic-Free Cosmetic Act of 2020 ( AB 2762 ) by Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi goes into effect this January 2025. This legislative session was not all treats without any tricks as not everything in the personal health and safety category advanced.

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Stories You May Have Missed Last Week: PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic

PA Environment Daily

Posted: January 19, 2025] PA Environment Digest Send articles, comments to: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com.

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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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Stories You May Have Missed Last Week: PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic

PA Environment Daily

Posted: January 26, 2025] PA Environment Digest Send articles, comments to: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com.

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