Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
So far as I can tell, the first serious American effort to cut emissions was the passage of California’s Pavley Act in 2002, which mandated cuts in carbon emissions from vehicles. In 2007, the Supreme Court held that EPA had jurisdiction to regulate greenhouse gases at the federal level. Waiting for Congress: 2000-2010.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 6, 2023
Last week, the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled that an initiative measure that would have imposed severe restrictions on oil and gas development in Monterey County is preempted by state law and therefore invalid. The decision came in the case of Chevron U.S.A., County of Monterey.
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Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. 2002 SB1078. California seems to have conceived of its role as alternatively a backup for weak federal regulation or a model for future federal action. AB 1493 (Pavley Act). 2006 AB 32.
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Energy Information Administration Investor-owned utilities are regulated to prevent them from taking advantage of their monopoly to gouge ratepayers. The adjacent investor-owned utility, Southern California Edison, has its rates regulated by the California Public Utility Commission. Image from U.S.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. The waivers in the law reduced farmer costs for managing polluted runoff.
Circle of Blue
JULY 23, 2021
Since 2002, millions of pastoral communities have been forced from their homes to make room for commercial cattle ranches, leaving parts of the region food insecure. As the drought worsens, farmers are forced to pull more and more water from underground aquifers, a resource that is dwindling and becoming more regulated by the state.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 29, 2023
According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” The case ultimately wound up in the US Supreme Court, which, in its controversial West Virginia v.
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