Alejandro Camacho

Coral species from another ocean may be the only way to save Caribbean reefs | PNAS Coral species from another ocean may be the only way to save Caribbean reefs

My latest pub, apparently more controversial than it should. We must support research on whether nonnative coral can fulfill reef-building in the Caribbean. If it shows promise, we should work to allow provisional deployment of such species while monitoring for adverse effects and using precaution.

Alejandro Camacho | Scholars Strategy Network Camacho’s scholarship studies the goals, structures, and processes of regulation, with a particular focus on natural resources, pollution control, and land use law. He explores the role of public part...

@alejandrocamacho.bsky.social's (@law.ucla.edu) scholarship studies the goals, structures, and processes of regulation, with a particular focus on natural resources, pollution control, and land use law.

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Unfortunately, Trump‘s biggest attack on climate action. Fortunately, it’s on shaky scientific and legal grounds.

UCLA Emmett Institute on Instagram: "We’re thrilled to welcome Alejandro Camacho, a renowned regulatory scholar, to @uclalawschool where he will be a core faculty member of the UCLA Emmett Institute.... 43 likes, 0 comments - uclalawemmett on January 29, 2026: "We’re thrilled to welcome Alejandro Camacho, a renowned regulatory scholar, to @uclalawschool where he will be a core faculty member of the ...

I’ll need to work on it, I’m a decidedly less serious person than I am in this video

The Trump Administration is Squandering Our Natural Heritage - Legal Planet Proposed Endangered Species Act regulations are designed to stifle protections and provide developers even more power.

🐻 🌲 In this @legal-planet.org op-ed, @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social of @law.ucla.edu warns that the Trump administration's proposed changes to the #EndangeredSpeciesAct threaten to harm species & habitat protections, with consequences for the government and economy.

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So glad to be a part of this new intellectual and social community!

There really isn’t a reasonable interpretation that would allow this road to be built. It’s a brazen attempt to ignore existing public lands and other law just to build a road, when another road could be built that doesn’t do so.

The Trump Administration is Squandering Our Natural Heritage - Legal Planet Proposed Endangered Species Act regulations are designed to stifle protections and provide developers even more power.

The Trump administration has resurrected several regulatory changes to the Endangered Species Act. They are "as irresponsible as they are illegal," writes our @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social in a new piece at @legal-planet.org.

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Alejandro Camacho Joins UCLA Law Faculty - Legal Planet At this critical moment in environmental law, the Emmett Institute at UCLA School of Law keeps growing stronger. We are pleased to welcome Alejandro Camacho, a renowned regulatory scholar, as a profes...

Alejandro Camacho (@alejandrocamacho.bsky.social) has joined us as a professor of law at @law.ucla.edu! The Emmett Institute keeps growing stronger. Read a Q&A with Camacho about his scholarship and policy-relevant advocacy at @legal-planet.org:

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Alejandro Camacho, environmental law expert, joins UCLA Law UCLA School of Law is pleased to welcome Alejandro Camacho, a renowned regulatory scholar, as a professor of law.

Really excited to start this new chapter in my career. UCLA Law is amazing and I look forward to joining its community.

Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way

Despite current US government’s immoral and economically idiotic efforts to fight it, it is good news that the world is slowly transitioning towards renewable energy. We need it to be further along, and it easily could be. But at least the world is waking up. The US government will be back someday.

Depressingly true

Deputy AG declares "war" on judges, vows to strip bar associations' power The statements are the latest escalation in the DOJ's comments about judges.

This is not normal. This is not legal. You do not have to be an attorney to know this is dangerous.

California’s Big Climate and Energy Package, Explained How California Quietly Overhauled Its Energy Policy

California is a place where people are having reasonable debates about climate policy. It’s not easy stuff, adults mostly in good faith are trying to figure it out. If only something even remotely similar was happening at the federal level.

Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.

Wonky report but real cause for optimism globally, despite Trump’s completely regressive and idiotic policies on energy.

Solar and wind outpaced the growth of global electricity demand in the first half of 2025, vaulting renewables toward overtaking coal worldwide for the first time on record.

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Trump tells UN that climate change is 'greatest con job' globally (Reuters) -President Donald Trump dismissed climate change as “the greatest con job” in the world during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, doubling down on his skepticism ...

This is the moron that is taking down the United States and trying to do likewise to the world. We are under the death grip of the most idiotic cult in the history of the world.

Chancellor’s Prof. @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social, in The Hill, reflects on the long history of U.S. environmental law and warns that recent federal actions could represent significant rollback of protections, with lasting consequences for public health & the environment.

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Unfortunately, Trump has remarkably already won the title of worst president on the environment in the history of the US.

For those struggling with inaction, perhaps this might help.

Trump Environmental Protection Agency moves to repeal finding that allows climate regulation President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed revoking a scientific finding that's long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

The Trump admin is blatantly ignoring the overwhelming science to be an international pariah & rewrite reality. No independent moral scientist considers this factually & morally defensible. It’ll be challenged in court & likely will lose. Even the first Trump admin thought this was beyond the pale.

YouTube video by NowThis Impact Fox News Host Declares Himself a Nazi

Fox News conservatives reclaiming Nazi as a badge of honor. Glad to see some rare accuracy on that network.

YouTube video by US Department of the Interior Inside Interior | July 4, 2025

A real post by Trump’s Interior Department using taxpayer dollars for propaganda. It’s horrifying and hilarious. Horrifying because it’s the best evidence we live in an Idiocracy. Hilarious because it looks as if done by a fifth grader and uses a gay anthem promoting helping underprivileged men.

Senate’s tax bill seeks to gut clean energy; Musk calls it ‘utterly insane’ The Republican-controlled Congress is poised to score a major win for President Trump by repealing green energy incentives that Democrats passed in 2022.

I guess I agree with Elon on something. This would be suicidal. And it’s likely to happen. The Republicans are screwing over INDUSTRY ESPECIALLY IN RED STATES in order to make Trump happy for 5 minutes. BTW the US Chamber of Commerce has said it’s stupid and dont do it also.

NEPA: The Accepted Lies and Mistakes About This Critical Environmental Law • The Revelator The National Environmental Policy Act makes government decisions better and more democratic, despite what critics claim.

A new op-ed by Board Member @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social and Member Scholar Rob Glicksman pushes back on attacks against NEPA. This bedrock law makes government decisions smarter and more democratic, despite what critics say. #ProtectNEPA

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NEPA: The Accepted Lies and Mistakes About This Critical Environmental Law • The Revelator The National Environmental Policy Act makes government decisions better and more democratic, despite what critics claim.

Here’s a short opinion piece I co-wrote on the repeated mistakes or lies by Republicans and Democrats about the purposes and effectiveness of our bedrock environmental law.

E&E News: US exports much of the world’s climate misinformation — report New research calls out President Donald Trump specifically for this ability to spread falsehoods about global warming.

I guess this is one area that Trump will not seek to impose tariffs. But who knows?