The next Governor needs to be prepared to approach these battles with an understanding of the true costs of climate change and the ways those costs are driving the affordability pressures that plague ...

Montana is launching a risky experiment in which untested medical treatments will be sold freely inside the state.

Two UCLA Law clinics represent experts in a long-running case that seeks to stop harmful gas flaring in Ecuador.

Guest contributors V. Ram Ramanathan, Durwood Zaelke, and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco write that we can cut the rate of warming by 30% to 50% within 15 years. “And we must.” Photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash ...

The hair-on-fire news this week was from the Environmental Protection Agency. The Drain is a roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.

Laying off two climate journalists is a step backward for NPR. The good news is that local public radio stations are still doing climate journalism. Well, it’s even worse than I previously reported at ...

Groups on the frontlines fighting deforestation are held back by institutional constraints – not just technological barriers – according to a new study from UCLA, NYU, World Resources Institute, and ...

One of the most frustrating aspects about the debate over the degree to which “Wokeness” (never defined) has taken over the Academy (or not) is that it relies almost exclusively on anecdotes. Someone ...

SB 1359 (Stern, 2026) would adopt many of the proposed policies outlined in the 2025 UCLA Law report, “Go Big, Save Big: Approaches to Fund Building Electrification in California.” Photos: (L) Marcela ...

Trump has espoused different economic theories. Often, it's mercantilism, which says countries get rich by exporting more than they import. Sometimes it's free markets. Neither of these theories can ...

An essay by Alejandro Camacho and Robert L. Glicksman on corporate fraud, weaponizing preemption, and the survival of climate accountability.