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Webinar: Environmental Legislative and Regulation Update: Trends, Directions, & Developments
This webinar will capture new California environmental legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments and includes implications of the Wheeler US EPA. This webinar the current state of US EPA policies, programs, and enforcement and evaluate the interplay with the California regulatory framework, EPA Region IX priorities, State Attorney General initiatives, and NGO-related citizen suits.
2019 Energy Law Conference: SB 100 and the Race to a Carbon Free Grid in California
Auditorium at Elihu M Harris State Building 1515 Clay Street, Oakland, CAOn March 28, 2019, the Environmental Law Section of the California Lawyers Association (CLA) will present its third bi-annual Energy Conference in downtown Oakland. This year’s program will focus on California’s aggressive plans to de-carbonize its electricity sector, including a 60% renewable portfolio standard by 2030 and a carbon-free grid by 2045.
Think Holistically: Incorporating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Environmental Decision-Making
Join community leaders, law and policy practitioners, and students for a discussion of what is being done – and what could be done – to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in environmental law and policy.Â
Webinar Replay: 2018 Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite: Keeping In-House In Order
This program offers 1.5 participatory MCLE credit. You must register in advance to participate. This interactive roundtable panel brings together distinguished in-house counsel from a variety of corporate sectors. Each of the panelists has environmental law expertise and responsibilities, and will discuss common aspects of their positions, as well as some of the unique challenges…
Webinar Replay: 2018 Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite: Drill, Baby, Drill
This program offers 1.5 participatory MCLE credit. You must register in advance to participate. In January 2018, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and the Trump Administration announced a plan to allow offshore drilling along the entirety of the Pacific coast, along with the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and in the waters off Alaska. Shortly…
Webinar: The Future of California’s State Housing Mandates – Discussion With Outgoing Director Ben Metcalf, California Department of Housing and Community Development
In response to the housing shortage, California has been strengthening the state-mandated housing allocations for regions to assign to local governments. The state now requires streamlined local approval for housing projects in jurisdictions that are not producing enough housing, ties transportation funding to compliance, and is now suing some local governments for inaction. Join outgoing California Department of Housing and Community Development director Ben Metcalf to discuss this process and where policy may go from here.
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