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Growers brace to give up some Colorado River water
Holly Doremus, a water rights expert and professor of environmental regulation at the Berkeley School Law discusses the cut backs on water imported to growers in California’s Imperial Valley from the...
View ArticleHow Arizona, California and other states are trying to generate a whole new...
Michael Kiparsky, water program director at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law discusses groundwater recharge projects.
View ArticleHow Can We Make Air Travel Greener (Besides Never Flying Again)?
Ethan Elkind, director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, UC Berkeley School of Law discusses the hope and limitations of green aviation technology and how we can...
View ArticleAlaska wants to reverse critical habitat for threatened seals
Berkeley Law Professor Holly Doremus discusses the State of Alaska’s lawsuit to reverse the National Marine Fisheries Service’s designation of critical habitat for threatened ringed and bearded seals.
View ArticleIn Transit: California Looks to Green Its Trucking Industry
Ethan Elkind, director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, UC Berkeley School of Law discusses new efforts by the state to decarbonize its trucking industry.
View ArticleOpinion: The real-world barriers to electric vehicle infrastructure
Ken Alex, director of Project Climate at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment discusses some of the issues for EV infrastructure and possible solutions.
View ArticleNew cost estimate for high-speed rail puts California bullet train $100...
Ethan Elkind, who watches California transportation issues as director of the climate change program at UC Berkeley’s law school, said the mounting problems cloud the project’s future. “It is in...
View ArticleOpinion: L.A.’s half-empty, crime-ridden Metro trains don’t have to stay that...
“L.A. and other local governments should be required to loosen development and zoning restrictions near rail stops, eliminating nitpicky requirements and endless hearings,” writes Ethan N. Elkind,...
View ArticleIn California’s Central Valley, the Plan to Build More Solar Faces a Familiar...
Ethan Elkind, director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, UC Berkeley School of Law discusses plans for more solar in California’s San Joaquin Valley and the key...
View ArticleIn Transit: Self-Driving Taxis and Trucks Take the Wheel
Ethan Elkind, director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, UC Berkeley School of Law discusses autonomous vehicles.
View ArticleSustainable mining reform must be everything, everywhere, all at once
“With coordinated global reform, we can fight climate change while mining as sustainably as possible,” writes Ethan Elkind, director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and...
View ArticleUnleash the deep sea robots? A quandary as EV makers hunt for metals
“Auto companies don’t want EV batteries associated with more destruction than they already have been,” said Ethan Elkind, director of the climate program at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy &...
View ArticleCalifornia’s push to ban natural gas hit a snag. Could it derail the entire...
The court’s decision “is not obviously wrong,” said Dan Farber, an environmental law professor at UC Berkeley, who disagreed with the decision. “But I don’t think it’s crystal clear.”
View ArticleCalifornia enacts first-in-the-nation crackdown on pollution from trains
“They’re the most aggressive (regulations) of their kind,” said UC Berkeley environmental law Professor Ethan Elkind. “There are previous (federal) regulations on locomotive emissions, but these will...
View ArticleChemours Accused of Human Rights Violation at Chemical Plant
“The Special Rapporteur can’t compel any action,” said Claudia Polsky, director of UC Berkeley’s Environmental Law Clinic. “But if he decides to investigate the allegations and recommends the companies...
View ArticleNorth Carolina residents urge UN to investigate toxic PFAS pollution
If the UN human rights commission chooses to investigate, a special rapporteur would fact-check the allegations in the communication, then issue “pointed” allegation letters to regulators, Chemours and...
View ArticleUN asked to investigate ‘human rights violations’ by Chemours
The community action group Clean Cape Fear in North Carolina, US, has joined forces with the University of California Berkeley Environmental Law Clinic to formally request that the United Nations...
View ArticleCalif. port unveils plan to manufacture offshore wind turbines
State law mandates that California switch to clean energy and achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. Offshore wind could play an important role, said Ethan Elkind, director of the climate program at the...
View Article‘Improvised, spotty and belated’: Will California reform its oversight of...
Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at the UC Berkeley School of Law, said it’s vital that state officials look ahead now to improve how the system functions to respond to the...
View ArticleCalifornia ranchers intentionally violated an emergency water order. Now...
“The fish don’t care if the lawyers are trying to figure out who’s right or wrong if they’re dead,” said Michael Kiparsky, water program director at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at...
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