02 May 2024

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Juliana v. United States and the Passing of a Show Horse

In politics, there's an old distinction between show horses and work horses. Show horses get attention. Work horses get things done. It's a useful distinction not just for legislators, but also for legal strategies, and it's particularly useful on the...

02 May 2024 12:26am GMT

04 Dec 2023

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The Complicated Equities of Localized Energy

This post is cross-posted at Legal Planet. For many decades, most people in the United States have obtained their electricity from a large investor-owned utility company (IOU). They had no real choice. Much of U.S. energy law was built on...

04 Dec 2023 7:00pm GMT

02 Nov 2023

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Accessioning Joy

We need your help, and it should be fun. But first, some scene setting. It is summer 2023, but it could be last summer, or the next, or the one after that. People are dying in droves from unprecedented heat,...

02 Nov 2023 5:10pm GMT