Legal Planet
OCTOBER 23, 2024
In another victory for environmental and human health amongst disadvantaged communities in California, Assemblymember Laura Friedman’s AB 1963 addressing paraquat dichloride was signed into law. The Environmental Working Group detailed how parquat disproportionately threatens California’s low-income Latino communities.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 15, 2024
This bill was signed into law this September by Governor Gavin Newsom. It is the first law in the country that gives a state agency the explicit authority to require automakers to manufacture electric vehicles (EVs) that can power homes and appliances, and even send electricity back to the grid. CWdL: I’m looking forward to that study!
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Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
You don’t have to look beyond the front pages of newspapers , or beyond rooftops in your neighborhood to know that we are in the midst of a clean energy revolution, with renewable energy technologies dramatically decreasing in price and increasing in availability. E – CELL will also build upon existing projects in the Frank G.
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Energy law used to be an obscure niche subject. Utilities were famously set in their ways, using nineteenth century technologies to produce and deliver their products. Energy law is a hot topic. Law students are thronging to the field, seeing an opportunity to combine social relevance with good-paying jobs.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Achieving climate goals requires significant investments in clean energy, transportation, and other climate technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon from the atmosphere. However, as we work toward an equitable climate transition, climate infrastructure investments need to be envisioned in a more expansive way.
Legal Planet
MAY 19, 2023
Monterey County Oil Field (credit: Monterey County Weekly) For the first two decades of this century, and under the able leadership of former Chief Justices Ronald George and Tani Cantil-Sakauye, the California Supreme Court was quite active in interpreting and shaping California environmental law. Well, break’s over.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 23, 2025
In 1976, the California legislature passed a law that effectively bans new nuclear power plants. To be more specific, the law forbids the California Energy Commission from issuing a permit to any new nuclear fission power plants until theres a way to dispose of toxic and long-lived nuclear waste. There are three reasons.
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