Environmental Law

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

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 

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, explores strategies for reducing transportation emissions

Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute, says corporate commitments to being water positive “are good and important on paper”, but there’s much more companies can be doing

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, discusses the how the challenges experienced by the California high speed rail project could impact other projects nationwide

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says although the federal government regulates offshore operations, the state can take action onshore to protect human health and wildlife

Louise Bedsworth, Director of the Land Use Program at the Center for Law Energy & the Environment and senior advisor to the California China Climate Institute, explores three important facts about our changing climate this summer of cascading climate disasters has put in stark relief 

Professor Daniel Farber says the physical and legal infrastructure of the West is geared toward a certain climate regime and, at great expense and effort, dams, canals, and irrigation systems have been carefully engineered for a climate that no longer exists

Dave Jones, Director, Climate Risk Initiative at the Center for Law Energy & the Environment, says the insurance industry , on the hook for more claim payouts, should be doing more to prepare for climate-related risk

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, appears on KQED’s Forum to discuss President Biden’s executive order that aims to make half of all new vehicles sold electric by 2030 and what impact California’s own policies and growing electric vehicle industry will have on the national plan