Environmental Law

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    Federal agency fails to notify Allentown residents about their increased cancer risk (02/11/2022)

    Lecturer Shanin Specter says that about 100 citizens of the area right around the Braun plant in Allentown have developed cancer

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    Pacific Cargo Route Sails Into Green Era (02/10/2022)

    Ken Alex, Director of Project Climate at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, said it is encouraging to see two of the world’s largest ports, Los Angeles and Shanghai, work collaboratively to accelerate the transition to zero-emission fuels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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    Next justice unlikely to make a difference in climate law (01/28/2022)

    Professor Daniel Farber says that the new justice should be able to work with other justices on the court but also have the ability to write strong dissents and appeal to the public sense of what the court has done

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    Climate ‘champion’ sought to replace Breyer (01/27/2022)

    Professor Daniel Farber comments that Justice Stephen Breyer’s  “contribution has taken the form of low-key concurrences and dissents” in the subject of environmental law

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    Calif. law will turn banana peels into renewable energy (12/20/2021)

    Ken Alex, director of Project Climate at the Center for Law, Energy and Environment, explains the hurdles to building food waste recycling plants, a key part of a law taking effect in January that will require municipalities across the state to collect food waste for its potential use in making renewable natural gas for electricity

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    Citing climate risks, California is denying fracking permits in droves (11/23/2021)

    Ken Alex, director of Project Climate at the Center for Law, Energy and Environment, says we can’t snap our fingers and be done with oil – the transition takes time
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    Calls grow for developed countries to provide more green finance (11/08/2021)

    Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says that developed countries are not doing enough to support developing nations in their transition to clean energy or their struggles to adapt to climate change

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    Deer Wars and Death Threats (11/08/2021)

    Professor Holly Doremus says that nature can be allowed to function without human interference within reserves, while humans can be allowed to function without concern for nature outside them

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    What California brought to the climate summit (11/06/2021)

    Ken Alex, director of Project Climate at the Center for Law, Energy and Environment, and Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, discuss what California is bringing to the international climate table and potential ideas it might take back from the discussion

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    What’s at stake for California at climate conference as Newsom backs out? (10/28/2021)

    Ken Alex, director of Project Climate at the Center for Law, Energy and Environment, says the stakes are high as a 23-member official delegation from California led by Governor Gavin Newsom heads to Glasgow for the United Nations climate change conference