The Atlantic
The paradox of defunding the EPA
“It’s really staff intensive to rescind a rule and then replace it,” says Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at the University of California Los Angeles. “To the degree…
IoES in the News
KPCC
KPCC-FM: All California children would get lead screening under bill
John Froines, a professor emeritus at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, said screening all children is a good step toward addressing lead contamination, but scientists still disagree on…
KCRW
KCRW-FM’s “Press Play”: Trump budget could deal a painful blow to California
“A lot of our regulation of air and water quality and greenhouse gases that can cause at climate change is done at the state level by state agencies, but a…
The Christian Science Monitor
Unlikely China ally in pollution fight: public activists
Alex Wang, an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Law who specializes in Chinese environmental law, writes in a soon-to-be published study that the overlapping interests of citizens and…
Public Radio International: Trump’s plan for EPA is death by ‘a thousand cuts’
The president can’t do away with the EPA altogether because “there are a bunch of statutes on the books that require EPA to do things: to issue regulations, to enforce…
Salon
Polluters could ‘more easily’ commit crimes under cuts
“The cuts are so deep it’s hard to imagine we won’t see real effects in air and water quality,” said Ann Carlson, an environmental law professor at UCLA law. “Individual…
Access Hollywood: Courtney Cox celebrates innovation
Courteney Cox, Nigel Lythgoe, James Marsden and more attended the John Salley hosted Innovators for a Healthy Planet gala. (Coverage starts at 1:51)
Esquire
It’s the golden age of climate denial
“…Plants already have CO2, and scientists have developed lots of evidence that rapid accumulation of CO2 in both the atmosphere and ocean will generate a large number of negative effects…
The Christian Science Monitor
Unlikely China ally in pollution fight: public activists
Alex Wang, an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Law who specializes in Chinese environmental law, writes in a soon-to-be published study that the overlapping interests of citizens and…
Phys.org
Climate change puts state’s snowpack in jeopardy in future droughts
“The cryosphere — frozen parts of the planet — has shown the earliest and largest signs of change,” said UCLA climate scientist Alex Hall, who along with study co-author Neil…
San Francisco Chronicle
California to fight if EPA eases emissions rule
“If the administration loses on this, California’s power is then absolutely clear, and it can use that power to issue standards that are stronger, and it can get other states…
San Francisco Chronicle
After near-record storms, signs of El Niño rise
“By any formal metric, this winter was unanticipated,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. “The deeper question of why it’s happening is challenging. I don’t think we have…
Popular Science
How we know there’s climate change, and humans to blame
“Past observations offer a context in which to view today’s climate — one in which Earth’s atmosphere is filled with the largest concentration of carbon dioxide in human history,” says…
KPCC
KPCC-FM’s Air Talk: Rollback of fuel economy rules could pit state, EPA
When EPA is asked to grant a waiver for California, it is required by law to follow what the Clean Air Act sets forth are the criteria for deciding that…
Los Angeles Times
When it rains, billions of gallons of ‘free liquid gold’ lost
“We haven’t made the progress we should have,” said Mark Gold, associate vice chancellor for environment and sustainability at UCLA. “The money is not there. That’s been the big issue.”
USA Today
Proposed NOAA budget cuts rattle scientists
Another expert notes that “virtually all we know about Earth’s atmosphere and oceans comes from sustained decades of government-funded scientific research,” according to a tweet from UCLA climate scientist Daniel…
The Atlantic
The coming clean-air war between Trump, California
“California was the first state — the first, really, governmental entity — to enact tailpipe standards,” says Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at the University of California Los…
KPCC
KPCC-FM: Winter storms have another upside: cleaner air
“Clear, cold and calm would be probably the three words to describe the conditions most conducive to wintertime air pollution,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA.
Los Angeles Times
Can California go its own way on federal environmental protections? These lawmakers want to try
“California will undoubtedly test the limits of what it’s possible for a state to do,” said Cara Horowitz, co-director of UCLA’s Environmental Law Clinic. The state, she said, “has made…
The Mercury News
Why it’s raining so much in California
“What we’ve seen describes California’s climate. It’s a climate precipitated by extremes,” said Daniel Swain, an atmospheric researcher at UCLA. “The precipitation is driven by the presence or absence of…
Smithsonian Magazine
Surprising reason the turtle learned to hide its head
“Given that there are only two neck vertebrae, they’re doing an awful lot of reconstructing,” said Brad Shaffer, an evolutionary biologist at UCLA not involved in the new study. However, he…
San Francisco Chronicle
Dams remain in line for bulk of funding
Extremes are what California is likely to see more of, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and author of the California Weather…
Los Angeles Times
L.A. area braces for what could be season’s biggest storm
“The Friday storm in particular could in fact become the strongest of the season in the Los Angeles region,” said UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain.
San Francisco Examiner
Line drawn in sand between beach access, protection
Jon Christensen, an adjunct assistant professor at UCLA’s Institute on the Environment and Sustainability, found the condition of the ocean and beaches is personally important to 90 percent of Californians.…