Environmental Law

If Congress and the executive branch does decide to prioritize eliminating Biden’s gas-fired water heater rule, it could bring the application of future EPCA standards into question, said Sharon Jacobs, an administrative and energy law professor of University of California Berkeley.

Professor Daniel Farber, director of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at UC Berkley Law weights in on how the Trump administration’s agenda and policy reversals will impact California.

“For decades, oil and gas companies have been allowed to mislead the public and profit from their products while sticking others with the bill for climate change,” writes Dave Jones, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment. “That must end.”

Dave Jones, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, and former California Insurance Commissioner discusses the devastating effects of the ongoing Los Angeles fires and their impacts on California’s home insurance market.

Dave Jones, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE) joins Forum to discuss how the fires will impact the state’s insurance industry and the future of insurance in a climate change-charged world.

“We are marching steadily towards an uninsurable future in this country,” says Dave Jones, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Ken Alex, director of Project Climate at UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment discusses what Project 2025 means for California’s climate goals and clean energy transition.

Louise Bedsworth, executive director at the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) at Berkeley Law shares an update on the recent UN climate conference.

Claudia Polsky, director of the Environmental Law Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law, weighs in on findings of a study she co-authored on California limits on ‘forever chemicals’ saying “It suggests a tangible public health payoff from the state’s more stringent environmental regulations.” 

Ethan Elkind, the director of the climate program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment weighs in on what the incoming Trump administration might do if a series of environmental rules that are before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, are approved saying “If Trump follows through with campaign promises to revoke these waivers after EPA approves them, California would likely sue over the federal administration’s action.”