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Author: Steven Holzer is a lawyer in Encino, Calif. He is a partner at Lewitt, Hackman, Shapiro, Marshall & Harlan, where he chairs the firm's environmental litigation and environmental transactions department.

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SB 827 IS LAW
Governor Schwarzenegger has signed the bill into law (on Sunday, October 11). See post below for a discussion of the bill.
AQMD-RELATED RELIEF IS ON THE GOVERNOR'S DESK
SB 827 is on the Governor’s desk Readers may remember that, recently, I wrote about the problem for many businesses and government entities as a result of a State Court ruling holding that the AQMD’s…
EVEN BBC IS NO LONGER SURE ABOUT "GLOBAL WARMING"...
Although political correctness has held that the debate over global warming is over (man is warming up the planet), increasingly there is evidence that we are actually in a period of global cooling. The only…
AQMD (AND BUSINESSES) TIED UP IN KNOTS
“The Gordian Knot is a legend associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem….” Wikepedia. Call it a “Gordian Knot”, a “Catch-22” or whatever else your favorite…
No surprise- big business often likes regulation
I am always amazed by 'reformers" who think that more government control is the way to curb business influence over public policy. In fact, more government control usually simply means that the regulators become the…
SUPREME COURT ISSUES LANDMARK SUPERFUND DECISION
Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. et al. v. United States, issued by the U.S. Supreme Court on May 4, 2009, makes 2 landmark changes (or at least clarifications) in Superfund jurisprudence: First, for…
From today's Washington Times Carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil fuels recorded their largest drop in 19 years last year, the federal government's chief clearinghouse for energy information reported, adding new fodder to the debate in Congress…
SATELLITE TRACKING SHOWS ARCTIC ICE AT 7-YEAR HIGH
From the IARC-JAXA Information System website: "The IARC-JAXA Information System (IJIS) is a geoinformatics facility for satellite image analysis and computational modeling/visualization in support of international collaboration in Arctic and global change research at the…
HOW CAN WE RELY ON THESE PREDICTIONS?
The Associated Press reports today on a recalculation by the University of Bristol (Great Britain) of the sea-level rise from a warmer planet. Just a couple of years ago, you will recall, global-warming gurus confidently…
BELIEF IN HUMAN-CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING DECREASING
A surprising new poll from the respected Rasmussen Reports on whether people think global warming is caused by humans (poll of voters): 34%-yes 45%-no 11%- not sure Just one year ago, 47% blamed humans for…