The BLM is about to hand over nearly 400,000 acres across the Central Coast and Southern California to oil drilling and fracking—near parks, schools, and communities. 📣 Submit a public comment before March 13. 👉 forestwatch.org/stop-oil

Come hang out at UCLA for the day on 4/3 and talk about the intersection of affordability and environmental protections. The @uclalawemmett.bsky.social symposium is always super thought-provoking and fun. (If enviro law and policy is your kind of fun.) law.ucla.edu/academics/ce...

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

There's some good news on the climate beat this week thanks to recent hires, expansions, and investments from HEATED to the LA Times to POLITICO and Drilled. legal-planet.org/2026/03/04/w...

A map of electricity bill pain in the Trump era: insideclimatenews.org/news/0203202...

I wrote about the one actually great thing that happened this week

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

"It’s clear that EPA means to tilt the scales in favor of polluting school buses, and kill any interest in the Clean School Bus program by unexpectedly halting and starting funding for school districts." - @lasmogguy.bsky.social legal-planet.org/2026/02/26/p...

Trump’s EPA announced recently that it wants to funnel federal funding away from electric school buses and toward dirtier options like those fueled by fossil gas. But they've been messing with school districts for more than a year now. legal-planet.org/2026/02/26/p...

"Our City's financial state is the culmination of decades of unsustainable budgeting, seen and felt by Angelenos across the City in our crumbling infrastructure and deteriorating services” is how the city controller opened his recent annual report. Sure seems like some want to shoot the messenger…

General consensus is that the endangerment finding rescission strengthens state law claims and authorities. But there is one way in which the rescission could undermine, not strengthen, Boulder’s arguments. Our Cara Horowitz explains @legal-planet.org legal-planet.org/2026/02/25/t...

The federal government claiming state preemption after killing the endangerment finding “feels like a bad ex-boyfriend who says, I don’t want to date you anymore, but you can’t date those other people either,” Georgetown Prof. Vicki Arroyo told @emilypont.bsky.social heatmap.news/climate/enda...

The justices had turned away similar industry appeals in recent years but will hear this Big Oil climate liability case next fall.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Tuesday’s State of the Union is gonna be a little awkward.

Now do California.

After the big @hayleysmith.bsky.social LAT investigation into the use of AI to generate public comments aimed at blocking SoCal air rules, advocates are demanding an investigation and holding a press conference to discuss this threat to civic engagement.

Trump’s EPA just rolled back critical, lifesaving Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, allowing dirty coal plants to release more mercury, arsenic, and other dangerous pollutants into our air.

The tariffs at issue in the Supreme Court case — half the total tariff bill — half of about $30 billion every month. “Refunds are messy but doable.”

By 6-3 decision, tariffs struck down.

New in data center democracy concerns: Police in Claremore, Okla. arrested a community activist named for "trespassing" during a public meeting after officers said he exceeded his allotted time to speak (by seconds mind you). The project is the planning phase. www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklaho...

📣 Submissions are now OPEN for the 2026 CCNow Journalism Awards! 🔔

California co-led a lawsuit filed today by a coalition of 13 states "challenging the Trump Administration’s unlawful decision to terminate funding for congressionally mandated energy and infrastructure programs created by Congress." oag.ca.gov/news/press-r... 🔌💡

I wrote more about what public comments generated by a mysterious, A.I.-powered campaign mean for civic engagement. Plus, the lawsuits have begun over the Trump EPA's attempt to rescind the endangerment finding. Here's a roundup of the action. legal-planet.org/2026/02/18/a...

Climate change coverage fell 14% globally in 2025, while the world endured record heat, raging wildfires, and devastating floods. The crisis intensified. The headlines didn’t. Less coverage = less urgency. www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...

Remember last June when SoCal regulators killed two common sense clean air rules? @hayleysmith.bsky.social has one helluva scoop showing the AQMD board acted after an AI-generated flood of comments. One more way AI is creating air (and information) pollution. legal-planet.org/2025/06/09/w...

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

Tomorrow, I am talking with researcher @gruberte.bsky.social about her work on the energy "mid-transition," that messy period when fossil fuel systems are declining as clean energy systems grow. Her latest paper contemplates the "minimum viable scale" for such systems before they collapse. Got Qs?

Our Prof. Ann Carlson was on NPR’s Here & Now explaining how EPA's decision this week to abandon climate change regulation could give more power to the states. 🧵 www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

EPA says greenhouse gases aren't covered by the Clean Air Act, "then states have a pretty strong legal argument that they are entitled to come in and regulate. I think that’s a consequence that Zeldin is not anticipating but we’re likely to see a big legal battle there.” www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Revoking the endangerment finding sure saves *someone* money but not drivers, voters, consumers, families. It saves billionaire polluters.

The Administrator continues to harbor concerns regarding the scientific analysis contained in the Endangerment Finding… However, the Administrator is not basing this action on a new finding under CAA section 202(a)(1)” www.epa.gov/regulations-...

Proper framing here by @dharna.bsky.social. Trump was asked today, "What do you say to Americans who are concerned that the 'cost savings' come at the expense of human health?" and he said, “I tell them don’t worry about it, because it has nothing to do with public health.”

Democrats with presidential ambitions hitting Trump for being pro pollution + pro corruption if not using the word “climate” exactly.

Democrats not having trouble talking about “climate” today.

I don't know what's worse about this assignment: taking food advice from RFK or meal prep advice from AI.

Wanna watch the EPA administrator essentially handcuff the agency from protecting us from the dangers of planet-heating pollution? Here’s a link for the 1:30 pm ET event. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

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Veg cookbook author and family meal maker here to say that the RFK + Mike Tyson “Eat Real Food” Super Bowl ad was the most terrifying, fat phobic, dystopian display of the game — and that’s saying a lot amid AI and Ring ads. Not a winning message, unless the goal is depression / mass suicide.

The National Park Service is studying whether portions of the Los Angeles coast could become a national park, @ianjames.bsky.social reports. We can weigh in at virtual meetings today and March 11. www.latimes.com/california/s...

I reported last week that the Washington Post had laid off at least 13 journalists who work on climate and the environment. The good news: there is still a climate desk. The bad news is that 4 reporters can’t adequately tell the story of global climate change. legal-planet.org/2026/02/11/t...

The end of privately run gas stations? New Science paper by @jlappen1.bsky.social & Emily Grubert lays out a future in which “electric transportation is becoming the market leader, but gasoline still has a share, albeit a declining one”: @dangearino.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/0502202...

Turns out that enlisting a secret working group of climate skeptics is a bad way to make policy. Reaction from my @uclalawemmett.bsky.social colleagues Ann Carlson and @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social to this week's endangerment finding news. legal-planet.org/2026/02/11/t...

Wild times. The Federal Judicial Center, a government agency that provides resources to judges, just removed a peer-reviewed chapter on climate change from its manual under pressure from GOP attorneys general who made outlandish claims about the info being biased. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/c...

Here's what to look for as the EPA revokes the endangerment finding. Plus, some good news about the climate desk at the Washington Post. And our song of the week is (obviously) “El Apagón,” by Bad Bunny h/t thread by @beckyhammer.bsky.social. Welcome to The Drain. legal-planet.org/2026/02/11/t...

Revoking the endangerment finding would mean full-blown warfare against all things climate. Some thoughts from our Ann Carlson who has been tracking this all year🧵

SAVE THE DATE for our 2026 symposium "Can Abundance Be Sustainable? Merging Affordability and Climate Policy." Friday April 3, 2026 (9am - 4pm). Our symposiums are always a lot of fun. They are free and open to the public, but they fill up. More details to come. @law.ucla.edu

This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values

How do we KNOW this was the best halftime show in Super Bowl history? #superbowl #badbunny