Carrie Jenks – Environmental and Energy Law Program

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Bio

As executive director of the Environmental & Energy Law Program, Carrie leads the EELP team in identifying legally durable strategies to support climate and environmental policies and advance clean energy deployment. With her legal and policy expertise in climate and environmental law, she has worked to build strategic alliances among stakeholders to advance policy solutions. Before joining EELP, Carrie was an executive vice president at M.J. Bradley & Associates where she directed power company coalitions that played a critical role in supporting — and defending in court — air pollution and climate regulations. Carrie was also an associate at Goodwin Procter and Willkie Farr & Gallagher. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and B.A. from Harvard University.

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In the Media
Bloomberg Law

EPA Move to Mute Health Costs in Air Rules Eases Deregulation

January 15, 2026

Quick Takes

NHTSA Proposes Significantly Weakened Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards

A look at NHTSA’s proposal and the issues we’ll be watching as it’s finalized.

January 9, 2026

In the Media
Harvard Law Today

‘This whiplash is different.’

December 17, 2025

Regulatory Tracker

EPA VOC and Methane Standards for Oil and Gas Facilities

The Biden EPA finalized three rules regulating methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. One of the rules, the Waste Emission Charge, was repealed using the Congressional Review Act. In Sept. 2025, EPA proposed to delay the GHG reporting rules until 2034. In Nov. 2025, EPA finalized the deadline exemptions for certain provisions regulating methane emissions from new and existing oil and gas sources.

December 4, 2025

Regulatory Tracker

Coal Ash Rule

EPA proposed to give 11 coal-fired power plants an additional three years to continue to dispose of coal ash in unlined ponds larger than 40 acres, allowing these coal plants to operate past their “currently scheduled” retirement date.

November 25, 2025

In the Media
Harvard Gazette

Want Americans to love EVs? Fix this.

October 15, 2025

Regulatory Tracker

Power Plant Effluent Limits

The Biden EPA strengthened final effluent limits for wastewater discharges from steam power plants in May 2024. In Oct. 2025, EPA proposed a rule to extend deadlines of the 2024 rule while the agency works on a more comprehensive proposal for revision.

October 2, 2025

Legal Analysis

EPA Proposes to End Greenhouse Gas Reporting

A summary of EPA’s proposal to eliminate the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program and a look at the potential impacts to federal, state, and industry efforts.

September 30, 2025

In the Media
Harvard Law Today

Harvard Law experts weigh in on climate law ‘retrenchment’

September 25, 2025