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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

Research into climate intervention techniques, especially solar geoengineering, has long been controversial. Scientists as well as publics and policy makers have been divided on its risks and merits.

In the last weeks, diplomats from all over the world were negotiating more than twenty draft resolutions at the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA). The Assembly is a biennial intergovernmental meeting ...

Guest Contributors Sean Donahue & Megan Herzog write that coal advocates offer troubling new grounds for the Supreme Court to stay EPA’s carbon pollution standards. Sean H. Donahue & Megan M. Herzog ...

Today I continue my series of blog posts on the CEQA lawsuit over UC Berkeley’s enrollment. My first post provided an introduction to the case and its background; my second post examined the risks of ...

Here are at least six reasons. For the first time ever, the U.S. Senate may vote this week to revoke California’s authority under the Clean Air Act to cut pollution from cars and trucks. The Senate ...

There were dozens of actions, all harmful to the environment. These are the worst of the worst. At this point in Trump’s first term, Ann Carlson wrote a post entitled “Trump’s Environmental Assault ...