Opponents of the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent “Good Neighbor” Plan claim that these important standards for so-called wandering ozone could destabilize the electric power system by, for instance, retiring coal-fired plants too soon. The rule does no such thing, according to some of the nation’s leading engineers and analysts with expertise in the operation, structure, economics, regulation, and reliability of the U.S. power system. 

After the California Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that Monterey County could not enforce its voter-approved ban on new oil and gas wells, there has been a wave of threatened and actual litigation by the oil and gas industry against local ordinances seeking to constrain oil and gas development. This has generated regulatory uncertainty and may chill local governments not already subject to litigation in their efforts to rightfully exercise their land use authority.

UCLA School of Law professor Ann Carlson has been honored with election to the membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies.