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@airresources.bsky.socialReposted by @uclalawemmett.bsky.social🎉 Celebrating 20 years of #AB32 — CA's landmark law that established the state’s global climate leadership & first greenhouse gas reduction goal
Our progress has become a blueprint for governments around the world & paved the way for a carbon neutral CA 🌎
@law.ucla.eduReposted by @uclalawemmett.bsky.socialUCLA Law students are playing a critical role in bringing attention to the 3.4B+ people lacking basic sanitation, contributing research to a U.N. report presented in Geneva. Read about the full scope of their pro bono work: law.ucla.edu/news/sanitat...
@uclalawemmett.bsky.socialIs this a landfill in Oregon?
@uclalawemmett.bsky.socialCutting methane emissions from solid waste landfills is one of those rare opportunities where the task is both important and relatively affordable to accomplish. Here are some solutions for better landfill management from TĂĽrkiye to Texas. stopmethane.substack.com/p/how-can-la...
@uclalawemmett.bsky.socialGrateful for your work in this important area!
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@weatherwest.bsky.socialReposted by @uclalawemmett.bsky.socialJust did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]
@uclalawemmett.bsky.socialThe #2 site on our Top 10 list is an Eddy County, NM source with an avg emission rate of 1.55 tonnes of #methane per hour—so high it nearly tied for #1. Thanks to a tip, the work of @earthworks.bsky.social and newly identified documents, we have an update.
@uclalawemmett.bsky.socialThis AM's oral arguments in the climate case before the Supreme Court gave hints to possible outcomes. But one of Boulder’s strong answers to the “tort suits are regulation” objection went unmade. Our @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social outlines the arguments.
@uclalawemmett.bsky.socialImportant on-the-ground reporting by @theguardian.com about 10 sites in Turkey’s waste sector with the highest average methane emission rates as seen from space. Landfill emissions will be a top priority at COP31 in Turkey next month.
@uclalawemmett.bsky.socialNew from UCLA's STOP Methane Project:
Reducing methane from landfills will be a focus of the UN climate conference #COP31 hosted by Turkey. Here are 10 of the biggest mitigation opportunities in that country.
@uclalawemmett.bsky.socialAre you following Suncor v. Boulder? Here 5 possible outcomes that our @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social analyzes as most likely in this case.
@uclalawemmett.bsky.socialThank you @whitehouse.senate.gov for resharing this story about UCLA’s satellite analysis — and for leading in this space. We have an interesting update on methane super-emitters coming this week.
@uclalawemmett.bsky.social“Suncor is not about whether climate change is real, and it’s not about who sets national emissions policy. It’s about whether a state court may hear an ordinary damages claim,” our @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social tells @motherjones.com. It’s a tort case.
@uclalawemmett.bsky.socialHere's your one stop shop for what to expect from the blockbuster climate case coming to the Supreme Court on Monday, from @law.ucla.edu experts @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social and @carahorowitz.bsky.social.
@legal-planet.orgReposted by @uclalawemmett.bsky.socialAfter weeks of suspense, Gov. Newsom signed SB 1359 and AB 2313, two bills that the @uclalawemmett.bsky.social policy analysis had identified as clear winners for ratepayers.
@uclalawemmett.bsky.socialNRDC and Earthjustice led the charge in passing AB 2313, with hundreds of organizations coming together in support. 🥳 It’s exciting to see growing momentum for reducing our reliance on expensive, aging, and increasingly unnecessary gas infrastructure.
@uclalawemmett.bsky.socialđź“Ł AB 2313, The Home Energy Choice (Berman), provides customers whose homes are scheduled for a gas service line repair or replacement with the option to receive funding to electrify their homes instead of continuing gas service.
@uclalawemmett.bsky.socialSB 1359, the Natural Gas Ratepayer Protection Act (Stern) as enacted will create greater transparency around gas utilities’ investments, and provide a crucial first step toward long-term gas transition planning.
@uclalawemmett.bsky.socialThe initial version of SB 1359 mirrored many of the recommendations in our 2025 “Go Big, Save Big: Approaches to Fund Building Electrification in California” report, written by Brennon Mendez, Craig Segall and our Denise Grab, who heads the Emmett Clean Energy Law and Leadership Project (E-CELL).
