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Recognizing The Link Among Climate Change, Food, And Poverty, Helen H. Kang
Recognizing The Link Among Climate Change, Food, And Poverty, Helen H. Kang
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The United States must begin to meet in earnest the challenges that climate change poses to adequate nutrition for the poor and the hungry. Climate change is profoundly affecting agriculture and is expected to continue to do so, resulting in sometimes-sharp food-price fluctuations to which our government at all levels is unprepared to respond. While those with resources may be able to cope with price volatility, those who are already undernourished are less able without government programs nimbly responding to fluctuations in food prices. Compounding the problem for U.S. households, the predicted cost increases of other necessities such as energy …
Not A Ceqa Question, Alan Ramo
Not A Ceqa Question, Alan Ramo
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Until the California Supreme Court speaks, the environment's impact on a project is not subject to environmental review.
Federal Air Pollution Requirements, Helen Kang
Federal Air Pollution Requirements, Helen Kang
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The Clean Air Act is notoriously difficult to navigate and enforce. The difficulty is in part due to the act's regulatory scheme, which is inferior in critical ways to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act). Unlike the Waste Discharge Requirements covering discharges of pollution into water bodies issued by the Regional Water Quality Control Board, which contain both federal and state requirements in a single permit, the Clean Air Act does not require a single permit for all facilities that pollute the air. Also significant, the Clean Air Act does not require self-reporting …
A Renewable Future: Jerry Brown's Environmental Agenda, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Ken Alex
A Renewable Future: Jerry Brown's Environmental Agenda, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Ken Alex
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The Environmental Law Section was honored to welcome Cliff Rechtschaffen and Ken Alex, two prominent Senior Advisors to Governor Jerry Brown, as its featured speakers for the first plenary session at the 2011 Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite® last October. Messrs. Rechtschaffen and Alex led a lively discussion of energy and environmental issues in the Brown administration, which touched on topics ranging from the Governor's agenda for addressing climate change to the Office of Planning and Research's approaches to CEQA to the administration's vision for a California with 50 million people, among others. They have adapted the following article from …
An Integrated Green Urban Electrical Grid, Deborah N. Behles
An Integrated Green Urban Electrical Grid, Deborah N. Behles
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This Article will discuss the vision of a new green urban grid that relies on decentralized generation and storage, energy efficiency, and demand response. Much of the literature focuses on the development of aspects of the green grid, such as energy efficiency, without consideration of how these resources should be integrated to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, maintain reliability, and create economic opportunity. After discussing the components of the green urban grid, this Article will discuss why integrating these components is essential to meeting renewable policy goals, and finally, this Article will discuss steps that regulators and policymakers …