Hana Vizcarra

Regardless of the outcome, Biden’s decision to reconsider the standards is indicative of how the new administration is balancing risk-taking with more “tailored” approaches reflecting knowledge gained from a decade of regulation turnover, said Hana Vizcarra, a staff attorney with the Harvard Law School’s Environmental & Energy Law Program.

Hana Vizcarra, a staff attorney at Harvard Law School’s Environmental and Energy Law Program, called the states’ arguments “hyperbolic.”

The decision isn’t a total “slam dunk,” Harvard Law School’s Environmental and Energy Program staff attorney Hana Vizcarra told Bloomberg Law. Future legal battles over climate regulations are likely still on the horizon, she said, but the victory does give the new administration an advantage.

The D.C. Circuit opinion affirmed Obama-era justifications for regulating power plant carbon under the Clean Air Act, but Hana Vizcarra, a staff attorney at Harvard Law School’s Environmental and Energy Program, isn’t expecting a Clean Power Plan 2.0.