A wonky but important development: Batteries are now eligible, along with coal plants, to receive payments to stabilize China's grid. That could put coal under more competitive pressure in the future: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Book news from our @greenlawchina.bsky.social! His new and very timely "Chinese Global Environmentalism" comes out this month.

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UCLA law professor Alex Wang has been studying one of the critical ways China has been making inroads around the world. The US has been ceding this ground.

Excited to announce the publication of my new book – Chinese Global Environmentalism – later this month! The environment was once one of China's greatest weaknesses. It is now becoming a pillar of China’s global power. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Thanks to UC Irvine & Jeff Wasserstrom for hosting the first talk for my new book "Chinese Global Environmentalism," which will be available in print from Cambridge U Press in February 2026! www.humanities.uci.edu/events/chine...

Did not realize how much I needed this today. Thank you.

The US is pulling out of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The only country in the world to do so. This is an abdication of our global responsibility as the largest historical GHG emitter to deal with the harm we have caused and are causing. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/c...

A wonderful chance to honor and reminisce about our mentor and friend Prof. Jerome Cohen. A life well lived and a major impact on so many!

A nice profile of my work in UCLA's Blueprint Magazine this month!

And the Trump administration just canceled the Nevada solar project... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

It's official: -2025 is now a more threatening year for the survival of the republic than 1968. -John Roberts will now go down in history as a worse chief justice than Roger "Dred Scott" Taney. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

@mit.edu has done an incredibly important service to the nation by being willing to be the first school to reject the administration's "compact." President Kornbluth focuses—and she's right—on the principle that "scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

More bad news from the "energy emergency" president. Trump administration cancels major solar project in Nevada. heatmap.news/sparks/esmer...

"This dominance would enable China to position itself as a leader in global climate talks; build stronger ties with Global South countries in need of cheaper, cleaner energy; and reduce choking pollution within China was only further reason to go all in on clean tech." @greenlawchina.bsky.social

Solar and wind are killing it. So is China. Two energy reports out this week and an LA Times op-ed by my @law.ucla.edu colleague @greenlawchina.bsky.social paint a clear picture of the future that may await us. 🧵 legal-planet.org/2025/10/09/s...

Two energy reports out this week paint a clear picture of the future that may await us. Solar and wind are winning. So is China. @evanlgeorge.bsky.social @greenlawchina.bsky.social legal-planet.org/2025/10/09/s...

I have an op-ed in the LA Times today criticizing Trump's war on renewable energy. The US is shooting itself in the foot and ceding the next generation of key technologies to other countries like China. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Hurting his own for no apparent reason. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How is China reshaping the economic landscape of Latin America? 🇨🇳🌎 Francisco Urdinez joins us on the latest podcast to discuss the economic shift and explore the future of the U.S.–China rivalry in the region. 🎧 Watch here 👉 tinyurl.com/d9nyrdju

A must read. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

None of NYT, WaPo, LAT, and WSJ have a story about the fire at this South Carolina judge's home yet. time.com/7323442/sout...

Why the Trump "compact" for universities is clearly illegal, unconstitutional www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

"God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters - what will be our answer, my dear friends?"

This is disgraceful. "Insulting & terrifying." youtu.be/FoobNxibTJE?...

Honestly, this entire opinion is just jaw-dropping. The first postings I saw on Bluesky were about the first page, which is lovely in its own right and exemplifies one of the less-well-explored roles of a judge in a democracy: to explain what is going on legally to non-lawyers. There's way more.

A remarkable decision www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*. Yes: free. If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!

“It’s frankly inconceivable" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The recent ICE raid on a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia highlights a problem in our visa system — and our politics. @greenlawchina.bsky.social legal-planet.org/2025/09/24/i...

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Wright is a disinformation machine. Fossil fuels receive NO subsidies in his view.

Centrist pundit in a few years: "Well, the American people just don't like wind power. It's just the way they are, part of the national character. What can you do? Best to dial back on our wind power talk. Moderate to win!"

This Li Shuo op-ed is terrific. I agree. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

The emperor has no clothes... youtu.be/RLoxCqc3Tro?...

Xi Jinping announced China's new climate targets personally, a positive gesture, but the targets brought little clarity on China’s future emission pathway. Targeting a 7-10% emission reduction by 2035 from an undefined "peak level" undersells China's current clean energy boom.

I have a new blog post out on the Hyundai battery plant ICE raid earlier this month. A bureaucratic own goal by the Trump administration that also points toward a bipartisan path forward? legal-planet.org/2025/09/24/i...

The Great Censoring has begun.

It pays to fight back. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Cool UCLA detail - bird sounds from 'Lovin You' - "Wonder insisted the song needed chirping birds ...; Rudolph says he, Riperton and Wonder ventured to UCLA’s botanic gardens with a microphone and a tape recorder to get the sound." www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT: A federal judge just issued a ruling that allows Revolution Wind project to resume work. This is a win for workers and should be upheld.

One of the world's largest copper/cobalt mines in the DR Congo is now in play as Glencore looks to unload the asset. The last time a mine this size was sold, it solidified China's dominance in the global cobalt market. Watch our analysis: