SCALING "LOCAL": THE IMPLICATIONS OF GREENHOUSE GAS REGULATION IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY

[...] their substantive decisionmaking requires them to engage with a wide range of actors at different scales as they make decisions about multiscalar problems.12 These layered interactions suggest that a law and geography analysis'3 of San Bernardino County might help to capture the nuances of appropriate and effective local policymaking with respect to climate change. The following map, reprinted from my previous work,21 delineates these complex layers.\n In addition, one of the "smaller-scale" units participating in Green Valley Cities is the March Air Force Base Joint Powers Authority, which is both "a federally recognized reuse authority for a formerly active base" and a local governmental entity governed by three cities and Riverside County.53 Even in the portion of its efforts most directly linked to the lawsuit - the revision of its General Plan54 - the County makes choices based on the consultant's recommendations about how to monitor emissions and reduce them. [...] when these interactions are viewed through a broader scalar lens, most of them take place near the legal "bottom."