This week the authors of Warming Law have the honor of appearing on the Climate Desk, a new journalistic collaboration that features and cross-publishes stories about climate change from several online publications, including Slate Magazine, the Atlantic, Mother Jones, Grist Magazine, Wired, Center for Investigative Reporting, and PBS’s Need to Know.
Our piece, entitled “Attractive Nuisance: [...]

by Doug Kendall, President, Constitutional Accountability Center. This article is cross-posted in Grist Magazine and on Text & History.
Following last Friday’s announcement that Justice John Paul Stevens will retire from the Supreme Court at the end of this term, President Obama hailed the Court’s most senior Justice as “an impartial guardian of [...]

Yesterday, automakers filed a motion to dismiss a long-running challenge to a set of California auto emission standards.   The automakers had alleged that California’s so-called “Pavley” standards for greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles were preempted by federal law.  In 2008, the automakers lost their case following a trial, and had appealed to the U.S. [...]

Today, the EPA announced that it has finalized new auto emissions standards for greenhouse gases.  These new regulations are the result of a three-way deal struck in May 2009 among the Obama Administration, the state of California, and the auto industry, pursuant to which the Administration adopted California’s so-called “Pavley” auto emissions standards nationwide.  The [...]