Filings & Testimony
The Filing of CLEE's First Effort at Environmental Advocacy
A friend-of-the-court brief filed November 24th in a major environmental case, on behalf of U.S. Senators Feinstein and Boxer, Speaker of the House Pelosi, and most of California's Congressional delegation. The case, pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, involves California's legal challenge to the Bush Administration's refusal to allow California to implement important greenhouse gas emission controls needed to reduce global warming. The brief supports California's position that the Administration's action violates federal Clean Air Act.
Amicus Curie Brief for State of California vs. U.S. EPA
California’s Salmon Crisis - Hearing Before the California Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife
March 10, 2009
Statement of Holly Doremus, Faculty Co-Director, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, Berkeley Law and Richard Frank, Lecturer in Residence, Executive Director, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, Berkeley Law before Chairman Huffman and members of the California Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife. The testimony addresses the current salmon and steelhead spawning declines (which had been found by the American Fisheries Society, in 1991, to include extinction of 106 Pacific salmon runs and 101 more at high risk) and assesses the future risks which global climate change might bring with ocean and river fluctuations. It also poses corrections to the problems of regulatory overlap, regulatory fragmentation, inertia, lack of necessary fiscal and staff resources, and political will within the conservation effort's regulatory system.
Testimony on California's Salmon Crisis.
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