Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XXIII Spring. Click headlines for the full article. The Case for a Green ‘No Deal’ by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Wall Street Journal The Senate rejected the Green New Deal on a 57-0 procedural vote last month. [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe California gas tax increases July 1, and next year, and the year after On July 1, just in time for summer road trips, California’s gas tax will go up another 5.6 cents. The increase occurs even as the rest [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe ‘Because issues are too complex for the public to understand’ The Omnibus Resources Trailer Bill for 2019-20, contains various statutory changes “necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2019.” Yet it contains language exempting a commission of the California [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe Unreliable renewal energy is ideology over necessity Over the weekend, PG&E turned off power in Napa, during a heat wave, only restoring power later in the day. More power outages came at 9 p.m. to customers in Butte County, [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe The DOJ’s agency within an agency appears redundant In February of 2018, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra created the Bureau of Environmental Justice within the Environment Section at the California Department of Justice. The mission of this agency within [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe The bill would expedite CEQA litigation, when used to delay or slay a project A bill by Sen. Anna Caballero (D-Salinas) to expedite California Environmental Quality Act provisions and judicial reviews on many types of developments, exposed a divide [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe California’s Water Law: 55 gallons per person per day despite 200 percent snowpack California is abundant in natural resources: water, oil and natural gas, seafood, timber and minerals. Yet, the state has imposed water rationing on the state’s residents [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe PG&E plan to cut power on windy days could leave millions in the dark, without power Following the devastating California wildfires of 2018, Pacific Gas and Electric recently announced it will cut power this summer to electricity customers on [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe Another regulatory onslaught aimed at California’s oil and gas industry California’s top environmental regulator, California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols, has stepped up the state’s war against the Trump Administration, as well as the state’s residents by threatening [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe Indoor water use restrictions of 55 gallons per person, per day starting in 2020 Nearly one year ago, then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed a pair of bills creating permanent residential water rationing standards throughout the state of California. Senate Bill [...]
