The Legal and Practical Challenges of California's Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation
Nota Bene Episode 101: Catching up with Global Climate Regulation with Nico van Aelstyn
Schoenbrod: SCOTUS Ruling Helps EPA Deal With a "Stupid Statute"
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a major shift in regulatory policy—to rescind the agency’s 2009 “Endangerment Finding” and to repeal all resulting emission standards for new motor vehicles and...more
Our Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group unpacks the Environmental Protection Agency’s strict new standards to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from light- and medium-duty vehicles by 2032....more
At the end of the 2020 legislative session, California Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill 288 (Wiener) (SB 288) into law. SB 288, amends the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), streamlining the environmental review...more
Public awareness regarding air pollution in the European Union is at an all-time high and citizens expect authorities to act. In this vein, the European Commission has recently taken a number of direct and indirect actions,...more
CARB Continuing Roll-Out of Revised Regulations to Reduce Emissions from Ocean-Going Vessels in California Ports - On December 5, 2019, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will hold a public hearing in Oakland,...more
Yesterday President Trump announced on Twitter that the U.S. was revoking California’s waiver under the Clean Air Act (CAA) which allowed it to impose stricter tailpipe emission standards than the federal ones. California’s...more
Just as a state’s economic development and growth is impacted by its ability to build and maintain its highways and bridges and improve its transportation systems, so too is its air quality. After all, transportation...more
The California Natural Resources Agency has adopted new CEQA Guidelines that will leave behind level of service in favor of vehicle miles traveled. Following years of development and public comment, the Office of Planning...more