Environmental Law

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, discusses a new analysis that says California must quickly ramp up permitting and building of solar, wind, battery storage and other technologies to meet its mandate of a 100% clean energy grid by 2045

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, discusses Kern County’s approval of drilling for thousands of new wells despite opposition from farmers and activists

Professor Daniel Farber discusses the Biden administration’s consideration of a push for national ambient air limits on greenhouse gases

Professor Daniel Farber says a suit by 14 Republican attorneys general accusing President Joe Biden of exceeding his powers in an executive order regarding climate change appears tenuous

Professor Eric Biber discusses politically viable steps President Biden can take to reach his ambitious goal of putting the nation on a path to net-zero emissions by 2050

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, says the idea  of delivering gasoline to motorists sends a bad message

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program, and research fellow Katie Segal, from the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, write California is well positioned to help the United States meet President Biden’s nationwide carbon neutrality goal

Ethan Elkind, Director of the Climate Program at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, urges U.S. and state policy makers to seize the opportunity to plan for a more sustainable, domestic electric vehicle supply chain

Ted Lamm, Climate Policy Researcher at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, lays out what the Biden administration could do for the environment, particularly in California

Data from CLEE’s “Reversing Environmental Rollbacks” project was used to help create the Washington Post’s webpage tracking the Biden administration’s environmental actions