Air regulators today face complex challenges but also have enormous opportunities. This brief discusses a set of air regulatory tools that can help empower states and local air districts to do more to reduce harms caused by air pollution to communities.
Join Law Students for Climate Accountability at UCLA Law to hear from public interest-oriented lawyers on their current or past experiences in BigLaw. Lunch will be served, and the panel will discuss if and how they managed to avoid working on personally repugnant work, as well as their other experiences in BigLaw and what they considered in making their decision.
If you’re driving north through L.A.’s San Fernando Valley on I-5 and look left at Sun Valley, you can see a major source of air pollution hiding in plain sight. Giant mounds of crushed concrete loom like towers from scrap yards that are called aggregate recycling facilities.
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J.D Environmental Law
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the short term. Reducing methane emissions is one of the fastest ways to slow global warming but tracking sources and enforcing reductions have long been challenges. New satellites can help address these challenges. Thanks to a new generation of space-based instruments, satellites can detect methane leaks in real time, offering unprecedented transparency and accountability.