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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 11, 2023
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.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
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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Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 2, 2023
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.
Environment, Law, and History
OCTOBER 6, 2020
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.
Legal Planet
JULY 1, 2022
The law will affect just about every type of plastic packaging you see walking down the supermarket aisle in California, and it’s a major step in the fight to reduce plastic waste, over 90 percent of which does not get, and much of which cannot currently be, recycled.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 21, 2024
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.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
“It really does come down to the fact that poor people, that have the least ability to pay, are the ones who are forced to come up with the dollars to upgrade their infrastructure, but the problem is coming from external forces,” says Nick Schroeck, the former director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center. And political power with it.
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