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California Enacts Major Water Law Reform Legislation–But More Changes Are Needed

Legal Planet

The California Legislature has enacted and Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law SB 389 , an important water law reform measure authored by State Senator Ben Allen. SB 389 is part of a broader initiative by the Legislature–and public interest groups–to reform and update California’s water laws.

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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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Early American history and modern American environmental law

Environment, Law, and History

April's issue of Studies in American Political Development has an article in this vein by David Brian Robertson, "Leader to Laggard: How Founding Institutions Have Shaped American Environmental Policy". American colonies ensured broad private rights to use land and natural resources for profit. The abstract: The U.S.

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Reforming California’s Financial Penalties for Water Theft Will Create an Effective Deterrent

Legal Planet

That’s true for two reasons: first, the federal government plays only a modest role when it comes to administering and enforcing water rights laws. water rights administration is primarily the responsibility of state regulators, applying and enforcing state laws. That’s because across the U.S.,

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Rightwing Authoritarianism vs the Environment

Legal Planet

It also wants to destroy environmental regulation, especially climate law. 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. Project 2025 favors authoritarian presidential rule.

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Will Rights of Nature Save The World?

Legal Planet

This approach is not unique to the United States – rights of nature legal approaches have been used in New Zealand , Bolivia , and Ecuador. Will this approach produce better outcomes for environmental law? Penalver and Spitz conclude that, at best, rights of nature might help in the rhetorical context.

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Why Congress Should Pass the A. Donald McEachin Environmental Justice for All Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

That was his way as a political leader: working tirelessly and proactively to make connections and fight to ensure everyone had the right to a safe and healthy environment. In solidarity with environmental justice leaders and communities, UCS has been a supporter of this bill since its inception.