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We just released our Spotlight on the Top 25 Plumes in ’25: Oil and Gas Sector. Oil & gas sites with the largest detected and quantified methane emissions rates worldwide. The Top 25 are mostly in Turkmenistan — but also Venezuela, Iran, Pakistan, and the US. stopmethane.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
Spotlight on the Top 25 Plumes in '25: Oil and Gas Sector
The Top 25 in '25 Oil and Gas Sector Ranking includes sites in Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Iran, Pakistan, and the U.S.
stopmethane.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
We just released our Spotlight on the Top 25 Plumes in ’25: Oil and Gas Sector. Oil & gas sites with the largest detected and quantified methane emissions rates worldwide. The Top 25 are mostly in Turkmenistan — but also Venezuela, Iran, Pakistan, and the US. stopmethane.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
NEWS: UCLA’s STOP Methane Project is live, and we have a Top 25 list of extreme methane emissions from oil and gas. Huge thanks to @whitehouse.senate.gov for sharing. Sign up for updates and see all the rankings: stopmethane.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
NEWS: UCLA’s STOP Methane Project is live, and we have a Top 25 list of extreme methane emissions from oil and gas. Huge thanks to @whitehouse.senate.gov for sharing. Sign up for updates and see all the rankings: stopmethane.substack.com
One thing is clear at COP30: Cutting methane is a way to pull the emergency brake on climate change. Important story from @fionaharvey.bsky.social.
Can #methane cuts pull us back from the brink of climate breakdown?
- "Cutting carbon dioxide is a marathon, but methane is a sprint,” says Durwood Zaelke
#COP30
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- "Cutting carbon dioxide is a marathon, but methane is a sprint,” says Durwood Zaelke
#COP30
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Can methane cuts pull us back from the brink of climate breakdown?
With temperatures breaching the Paris limit, experts say tackling the powerful gas could buy crucial time as the clean-energy shift stalls
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One thing is clear at COP30: Cutting methane is a way to pull the emergency brake on climate change. Important story from @fionaharvey.bsky.social.
Thinking about the 45 native shrubs our @law.UCLA.edu students and faculty planted as a Public Service Challenge last week. They’re getting a good long shower.
LA looks like it will record its wettest November in 40 years, and register one-fifth of its annual average rainfall by the end of the weekend. Blessing and a curse like always.
November 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thinking about the 45 native shrubs our @law.UCLA.edu students and faculty planted as a Public Service Challenge last week. They’re getting a good long shower.
Our Prof. Ann Carlson talks with Sammy Roth about a possible silver-lining if Trump succeeds in revoking the endangerment finding: California could gain the power to regulate greenhouse gases.
Biggest climate news nobody's talking about: California is "rethinking" its 2035 electric vehicle mandate. Right while Gavin Newsom saunters around Brazil telling the world to follow CA's lead on climate.
More in my newsletter, Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/so-much-fo...
More in my newsletter, Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/so-much-fo...
So much for Gavin Newsom's electric vehicle mandate
California's leading the world on climate. So where's California going?
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Our Prof. Ann Carlson talks with Sammy Roth about a possible silver-lining if Trump succeeds in revoking the endangerment finding: California could gain the power to regulate greenhouse gases.
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A nice profile of my work in UCLA's Blueprint Magazine this month!
UCLA's Blueprint Magazine explores China's lead in the race to renewables and features a lengthy interview and profile of our Prof. Alex Wang @greenlawchina.bsky.social.
blueprint.ucla.edu/feature/the-...
blueprint.ucla.edu/feature/the-...
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A nice profile of my work in UCLA's Blueprint Magazine this month!
Many Americans today have no memory of the world that spurred modern environmental law. The Documerica project, housed at the National Archives, provides a vivid window into environmental destruction circa the 1970s and reminds us how far we’ve come," writes our Prof. Jim Salzman.
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Many Americans today have no memory of the world that spurred modern environmental law. The Documerica project, housed at the National Archives, provides a vivid window into environmental destruction circa the 1970s and reminds us how far we’ve come," writes our Prof. Jim Salzman.
👋We're on the ground at #COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Please say hi.
Our Cara Horowitz joins our methane project lead Juan Pablo Escudero, a Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Our Governors' Climate & Forests Task Force led by Jason Gray is holding a governors roundtable and several side events.
Our Cara Horowitz joins our methane project lead Juan Pablo Escudero, a Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Our Governors' Climate & Forests Task Force led by Jason Gray is holding a governors roundtable and several side events.
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
👋We're on the ground at #COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Please say hi.
Our Cara Horowitz joins our methane project lead Juan Pablo Escudero, a Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Our Governors' Climate & Forests Task Force led by Jason Gray is holding a governors roundtable and several side events.
Our Cara Horowitz joins our methane project lead Juan Pablo Escudero, a Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Our Governors' Climate & Forests Task Force led by Jason Gray is holding a governors roundtable and several side events.
If Trump’s EPA abandons climate policy, could California take over on greenhouse gases? Our Ann Carlson first floated the idea, which appears to have legs. Good story by @gauchoesque.bsky.social
calmatters.org/environment/...
calmatters.org/environment/...
If Trump’s EPA abandons climate policy, could California take over on greenhouse gases?
California, the state that helped define U.S. clean-air policy, is once again considering how far it can go without Washington’s permission.
calmatters.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
If Trump’s EPA abandons climate policy, could California take over on greenhouse gases? Our Ann Carlson first floated the idea, which appears to have legs. Good story by @gauchoesque.bsky.social
calmatters.org/environment/...
calmatters.org/environment/...
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What ethical, moral, and biophysical concerns should we consider as we weigh the costs and benefits of further altering Earth’s planetary balance?
In this episode, Nate interviews Professor Ted Parson about solar geoengineering (specifically stratospheric aerosol injection) as a potential response to severe climate risks.
www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/200-...
www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/200-...
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
What ethical, moral, and biophysical concerns should we consider as we weigh the costs and benefits of further altering Earth’s planetary balance?
Our Faculty Director Ted Parson is on the latest episode of The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens to talk about climate interventions, risks, and thorny governance issues. @law.ucla.edu
In this episode, Nate interviews Professor Ted Parson about solar geoengineering (specifically stratospheric aerosol injection) as a potential response to severe climate risks.
www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/200-...
www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/200-...
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Our Faculty Director Ted Parson is on the latest episode of The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens to talk about climate interventions, risks, and thorny governance issues. @law.ucla.edu
UCLA's Blueprint Magazine explores China's lead in the race to renewables and features a lengthy interview and profile of our Prof. Alex Wang @greenlawchina.bsky.social.
blueprint.ucla.edu/feature/the-...
blueprint.ucla.edu/feature/the-...
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
UCLA's Blueprint Magazine explores China's lead in the race to renewables and features a lengthy interview and profile of our Prof. Alex Wang @greenlawchina.bsky.social.
blueprint.ucla.edu/feature/the-...
blueprint.ucla.edu/feature/the-...
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Newsom grabs the spotlight. Big money for methane reductions. China and Brazil fill the power vacuum. Here's the good and bad of COP30.
legal-planet.org/2025/11/12/g...
legal-planet.org/2025/11/12/g...
Good COP, Bad COP in Belém, Brazil - Legal Planet
The United Nations mega-conference focused on climate change known as COP (“Conference of the Parties”) is well underway in Belém, Brazil with 193 countries plus the EU, 57 heads of state, 39 minister...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Newsom grabs the spotlight. Big money for methane reductions. China and Brazil fill the power vacuum. Here's the good and bad of COP30.
legal-planet.org/2025/11/12/g...
legal-planet.org/2025/11/12/g...
The legal and policy issues presented by possible interventions in the Earth System in response to escalating climate risk are only becoming thornier by the day. Our Ted Parson weighs in on solar geoengineering startups and on his expanded research in this area.
legal-planet.org/2025/11/11/s...
legal-planet.org/2025/11/11/s...
Should Private Firms Be Involved in Cooling the Planet? - Legal Planet
Private firms like Stardust Solutions want to get in on planet-cooling interventions. Here’s the OK, the bad, and the ugly about startup involvement.
legal-planet.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The legal and policy issues presented by possible interventions in the Earth System in response to escalating climate risk are only becoming thornier by the day. Our Ted Parson weighs in on solar geoengineering startups and on his expanded research in this area.
legal-planet.org/2025/11/11/s...
legal-planet.org/2025/11/11/s...
The just-launched Tropical Forests Forever Facility is a bold new investment fund that aims to channel billions into tropical forest protection – "One key change can make it better," writes our Jason Gray at @us.theconversation.com as #COP30 gets underway.
theconversation.com/a-bold-new-i...
theconversation.com/a-bold-new-i...
A bold new investment fund aims to channel billions into tropical forest protection – one key change can make it better
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility is designed to reward countries for preventing deforestation. Charts show the magnitude of the problem.
theconversation.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The just-launched Tropical Forests Forever Facility is a bold new investment fund that aims to channel billions into tropical forest protection – "One key change can make it better," writes our Jason Gray at @us.theconversation.com as #COP30 gets underway.
theconversation.com/a-bold-new-i...
theconversation.com/a-bold-new-i...
For the @law.ucla.edu Public Service Challenge, our law students volunteered at @treepeople-org.bsky.social, removing invasive plants, and planting CA sagebrush and other natives all along a hillside they’re restoring. #probono
November 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
For the @law.ucla.edu Public Service Challenge, our law students volunteered at @treepeople-org.bsky.social, removing invasive plants, and planting CA sagebrush and other natives all along a hillside they’re restoring. #probono
This article in the new #UCLA Blueprint magazine looks at our GCF Task Force's work in Brazil on the long road to #COP30.
blueprint.ucla.edu/sketch/notes...
blueprint.ucla.edu/sketch/notes...
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This article in the new #UCLA Blueprint magazine looks at our GCF Task Force's work in Brazil on the long road to #COP30.
blueprint.ucla.edu/sketch/notes...
blueprint.ucla.edu/sketch/notes...
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Thanks to @blancabegert.bsky.social for covering this important topic and a bunch of work by my colleagues @uclalawemmett.bsky.social, @uclaioes.bsky.social looking at the LADWP/SoCal Edison comparison +
insideclimatenews.org/news/0511202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0511202...
Why Are Rates Rising Faster at Investor-Owned Utilities Than at Public Utilities? - Inside Climate News
Case studies from California offer a look into the pros and cons of public and private utilities.
insideclimatenews.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Thanks to @blancabegert.bsky.social for covering this important topic and a bunch of work by my colleagues @uclalawemmett.bsky.social, @uclaioes.bsky.social looking at the LADWP/SoCal Edison comparison +
insideclimatenews.org/news/0511202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0511202...
Important story from @blancabegert.bsky.social on the differences between investor-owned utilities and publicly owned electricity providers, citing work by our current and former energy law experts.
This headline asks a question that makes investor-owned utilities squirm. Nice work from my colleague @blancabegert.bsky.social:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0511202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0511202...
Why Are Rates Rising Faster at Investor-Owned Utilities Than at Public Utilities? - Inside Climate News
Case studies from California offer a look into the pros and cons of public and private utilities.
insideclimatenews.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Important story from @blancabegert.bsky.social on the differences between investor-owned utilities and publicly owned electricity providers, citing work by our current and former energy law experts.
Here's our new user-friendly ranking of super-polluting methane emissions across multiple sectors called STOP Methane (Spotlight on Top Plumes). Our UCLA experts will regularly publish lists as a new resource for journalists, industry leaders, policymakers, and the public. ucla.in/3JB9yBt
Announcing the UCLA Emmett Institute's STOP Methane Project
The Emmett Institute’s STOP Methane Project aims to make the new data more visible, understandable, and usable in guiding and motivating efforts to cut emissions.
ucla.in
November 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Here's our new user-friendly ranking of super-polluting methane emissions across multiple sectors called STOP Methane (Spotlight on Top Plumes). Our UCLA experts will regularly publish lists as a new resource for journalists, industry leaders, policymakers, and the public. ucla.in/3JB9yBt
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Such a useful news roundup!
Your morning fix is becoming more expensive thanks to the dangerous duo of climate change and Donald Trump. This week: a look at climate impacts on coffee, COP30, Climate Leader lists, Billie Eilish, and a response to Bill Gates. 🧵
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legal-planet.org/2025/11/04/c...
Climate Change is Coming for Your Coffee - Legal Planet
The cost of coffee keeps going up thanks to Trump and climate change. The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental news from Legal Planet.
legal-planet.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Such a useful news roundup!
📣NEWS: We just launched STOP Methane, a user-friendly ranking of super-polluting methane emissions across multiple sectors. Our @law.ucla.edu experts will regularly publish these ranked lists as a new resource for journalists, industry leaders, policymakers, and the public. ucla.in/3JB9yBt
Announcing the UCLA Emmett Institute's STOP Methane Project
The Emmett Institute’s STOP Methane Project aims to make the new data more visible, understandable, and usable in guiding and motivating efforts to cut emissions.
ucla.in
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
📣NEWS: We just launched STOP Methane, a user-friendly ranking of super-polluting methane emissions across multiple sectors. Our @law.ucla.edu experts will regularly publish these ranked lists as a new resource for journalists, industry leaders, policymakers, and the public. ucla.in/3JB9yBt
we have news tomorrow, stay tuned
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November 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
we have news tomorrow, stay tuned
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Confused or curious about the Bill Gates climate memo? I've got you covered! TOMORROW at 1:30pm PT, I'm talking with 4 great scientists. Sign up for an important convo w/ @katharinehayhoe.com @kimcobb.bsky.social @hausfath.bsky.social @weatherwest.bsky.social: coveringclimatenow.org/event/the-bi...
The Bill Gates Memo: Climate Scientists Respond With Urgency — Covering Climate Now
Ahead of this month’s COP30 summit in Brazil, billionaire investor Bill Gates is advising world leaders that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and that effort to reducing emissions a...
coveringclimatenow.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Confused or curious about the Bill Gates climate memo? I've got you covered! TOMORROW at 1:30pm PT, I'm talking with 4 great scientists. Sign up for an important convo w/ @katharinehayhoe.com @kimcobb.bsky.social @hausfath.bsky.social @weatherwest.bsky.social: coveringclimatenow.org/event/the-bi...
Our October newsletter has arrived and it's packed
📑 Defending Clean Air at the Ninth Circuit
🏭 New Energy Report: “Cost & Carbon”
👏🏻 Welcome: Nico Esguerra and the ESI Project
🌎 Methane Workshop in Argentina
🌳Yosemite Environmental Law Conference
🎤 Media
⁉️ Trivia Corner!
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📑 Defending Clean Air at the Ninth Circuit
🏭 New Energy Report: “Cost & Carbon”
👏🏻 Welcome: Nico Esguerra and the ESI Project
🌎 Methane Workshop in Argentina
🌳Yosemite Environmental Law Conference
🎤 Media
⁉️ Trivia Corner!
mailchi.mp/law.ucla.edu...
October at the UCLA Emmett Institute
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October 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Our October newsletter has arrived and it's packed
📑 Defending Clean Air at the Ninth Circuit
🏭 New Energy Report: “Cost & Carbon”
👏🏻 Welcome: Nico Esguerra and the ESI Project
🌎 Methane Workshop in Argentina
🌳Yosemite Environmental Law Conference
🎤 Media
⁉️ Trivia Corner!
mailchi.mp/law.ucla.edu...
📑 Defending Clean Air at the Ninth Circuit
🏭 New Energy Report: “Cost & Carbon”
👏🏻 Welcome: Nico Esguerra and the ESI Project
🌎 Methane Workshop in Argentina
🌳Yosemite Environmental Law Conference
🎤 Media
⁉️ Trivia Corner!
mailchi.mp/law.ucla.edu...