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With Gina McCarthy, Janet McCabe and Joe Goffman led the team that developed the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. Hear them discuss the effects of a new proposal to remove the legal foundation of the rule, and what might happen next. Janet’s recent paper on this is here and our recent analysis of the rollback is here.
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Our Electricity Law Initiative Director Ari Peskoe interviews Jesse Jenkins, a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Ari and Jesse discuss fundamental principles of electricity market design and whether these principles will continue to apply to a low-carbon grid with high levels of wind and solar.
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Our Electricity Law Initiative Director Ari Peskoe interviews Phil Sharp – former Indiana Representative and chairman of the Energy and Power Subcommittee, director of the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, and President of Resources for the Future. Ari and Phil discuss the history of PURPA and its implications for climate change legislation. Thank you to the Harvard University Center for the Environment for helping with this podcast.
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EPA administrators in the first Trump administration removed, weakened, and delayed many rules that protect public health and the environment. Instead of working to deliver environmental and public health protections, the Trump EPA allowed higher levels of pollution for longer periods of time. EPA leadership also undertook a larger project that will be more difficult to reverse: dismantling the agency’s ability to do its job. They also undermined the agency’s capacity to develop, implement, and enforce effective programs that reduce pollution and serve vital public health needs.
See below for our posts describing changes to critical processes that enable the agency to carry out its mission at the intersection between public health, science, and the environment.
Note: This is from the first Trump administration and is no longer being updated.
During the first Trump administration EPA undermined the agency’s standing as an expert agency and its ability to take science-based actions. EPA leadership also replaced qualified experts on its advisory committees, proposed excluding important science from its decision-making, changed its regulatory benefit calculations, and limited the scientific information it shares with the public.
During the first Trump administration, EPA failed to protect human health to the best of its ability. Agency leadership undermined the review process for air pollution standards that are essential to public health- the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).
Under the first Trump administration, EPA made it more difficult for the public to hold the agency accountable for protecting public health and the environment.
Under the first Trump administration, EPA changed its compliance and enforcement policies and how it collected monitoring information. These actions decreased the overall effectiveness of EPA’s programs and regulations.
EPA’s EJ efforts coming into the first Trump administration had been insufficient to address the scale and severity of environmental injustice in the US. These challenges worsened during the first Trump administration.
