Ethan Elkind

3 weeks ago | coloradoboulevard.net | Ethan Elkind

For California to meet its climate goals and lower costs on essentials like housing, transportation, and energy, it must dramatically scale up infill housing, transit, clean energy facilities, and other critical projects. A key part of reaching that goal involves reforming how environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) can, counterproductively, slow permitting for this much-needed development. By Ethan ElkindBut under the banner of that “Lord’s work” (as former Gov.

1 month ago | legal-planet.org | Ethan Elkind

Weakening the statewide standard of review benefits polluting facilities For California to meet its climate goals and bring down prices on basic needs like housing, transportation and energy, it will need to dramatically increase infill housing, transit and clean energy facilities, among other projects.

1 month ago | legal-planet.org | Ethan Elkind

A Senate Housing Committee debate last week was a sobering indication. There’s a lot of talk in certain policy circles these days about abundance, as a strategy to improve people’s lives and lower the cost of living through better governance. Nowhere is “abundance” needed more than in California, where housing costs due to a dire long-term shortage of homes has made the state one of the most expensive to live in in the country.

2 months ago | kalw.org | Ethan Elkind |Andrew Stelzer

On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet series, we’ll dig into what's been a wild few months for the electric vehicle industry. Between Trump’s threats to defund EVs, fluctuating tariffs, and Elon Musk advising the White House, what's the future looking like? We’ll also hear about proposed cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that could drastically reduce data about ocean temperature and health.

2 months ago | coloradoboulevard.net | Ethan Elkind

Back in 2012, Berkeley Law’s CLEE and UCLA Law’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment released a report called “Electric Drive by ’25,” with the bold subtitle “How California Can Catalyze Mass Adoption of Electric Vehicles by 2025.” By Ethan Elkind The report cited 2011-12 EV sales as reason for optimism on achieving mass adoption by 2025: Early results from the introduction of new electric vehicles to the U.S. market have been promising, with sales of both Nissan LEAFs and...