[Podcast] Hosted Payload Episode 5
Stoel Rives | Deeply Rooted Podcast Episode Three: Diversity in Agriculture: From its People to its Products with Elin Miller, Founder of Umpqua Nut Farms & Umpqua Vineyards
Nota Bene Episode 101: Catching up with Global Climate Regulation with Nico van Aelstyn
[WEBINAR] Update on the California Environmental Quality Act: What’s New for 2018
In one of its last official acts before starting its summer recess earlier this month, the California legislature passed a bill putting Prop 4 on the November ballot, which would allow the state to borrow $10 billion plus...more
In the fall of 2023, California's Department of Insurance unveiled the Sustainable Insurance Strategy, a comprehensive initiative aimed at reforming the state’s insurance market. The impetus for this strategy was driven by a...more
2023 was the hottest year on record. Not only the hottest since U.S. meteorological recordkeeping began in 1850, but according to Scientific American, 2023 was also “the hottest temperature that our planet has experienced in...more
We keep hearing about how difficult it is for our clients to get property insurance these days, both for homes and businesses in Northern California’s wildfire-prone areas. Which, of course, is most of Northern California. ...more
Greenwire (subscription required) reported yesterday that more than 150 wildfires in Quebec have blanketed large swaths of the United States with unhealthy levels of particulate matter. Indeed, as of 9:00 AM on Thursday,...more
The 2020 wildfire season alone released more carbon dioxide than what California reduced through years of emission cuts. California is a recognized leader in climate policy, but a wildfire crisis is threatening to unwind...more
New limits recommended for building homes in high-risk wildfire areas in California - The Mercury News – October 10 - At a news conference in San Diego County on October 10, California Attorney General Rob Bonta released...more
Expansion of clean energy loans is ‘sleeping giant’ of climate bill - The New York Times – August 22 - Tucked into the Inflation Reduction Act that President Biden signed last week is a major expansion of federal loan...more
The Mitchell Williams Insurance Regulatory team of lawyers recently attended the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) 2022 Summer National Meeting which was held in Portland, Oregon on August 9-13th. We have...more
CARB addresses California’s increasingly severe climate impacts. On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update (Draft Scoping Plan) for public review and comment....more
A non-profit research group, First Street Foundation, recently released data that calculates the wildfire risk for each property in the United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii). Notably, according to First Street...more
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been publishing assessment reports describing expected climate change impacts and risks since 1990 and has warned of the growing risks from climate change in each...more
The Office of Climate Change and Health Equity - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently established the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE), reinforcing the Biden-Harris administration’s...more
In anti-science fantasy worlds, climate change is a mere theory, an abstraction to be ignored for now. This view would be foolish under any circumstance. But it has become more counterfactual than ever, as people come to...more
Fluctuating water supply and reliability throughout the U.S. has the potential to have major implications for rural communities, farmers, agricultural operators, ranchers, forest owners, and other stakeholders. Adapting to...more
EXTREME WEATHER OR EXTREME EXAGGERATION? About half of Wallace-Wells’s book, Uninhabitable Earth, is devoted to what he describes as the “Elements of Chaos” that will result from man-made climate change unless fossil fuels...more
U.S. formally exits Paris Climate Agreement - Bullet Associated Press – November 4 - The United States this Wednesday formally left the Paris Climate Agreement, a global pact it helped forge five years ago during the...more
The Earth’s climate is changing. With unprecedented fires in California and the State’s litigation with the federal government, the Brazilian rainforest fires, and the aircraft industry’s inability to curb aircraft emissions,...more
Can Americans Seek Justice for Losses from Climate Change? America’s civil justice system is the great equalizer for the average citizen. Time and again, individuals have held powerful corporations, wealthy special...more
California grants western Joshua trees temporary endangered species protections - Bullet Los Angeles Times – September 22 - The California Fish and Game Commission this Tuesday granted temporary endangered species...more
Wildfire smoke decreases California solar energy output - KQED – September 11 - Thick layers of ash and smoke in California have made it harder for solar panels to absorb sunlight, decreasing their energy output by as...more
California commercial real estate ramps up use of alternative energy sources - Bullet Bisnow – September 13 - Stem is one of a number of alternative energy companies seeing an increase in demand from commercial real...more
We are in Yosemite, midway through our month-long RV trip out west. We planned this trip long before the world heard of Covid-19, but decided it was the lowest risk vacation we might take in 2020, so off we went. After two...more
Coronavirus Throws EU Climate Plans into Disarray - "Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said last week that the EU should 'forget about' the Green Deal for now while it focuses on Coronavirus." Why this is important: ...more
Land Use, Telecommunications, Environmental and More - As noted in Part I of this two-part series, California lawmakers passed a number of new laws last year that greatly impact how public agencies serve their...more