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Gizmodo

Another Top EPA Official Is Out Amid Ethics Scandal

“Wehrum was an enthusiastic executioner of the Trump EPA’s anti-public health anti-environmental agenda,” said Joe Goffman, who worked on the Clean Power Plan when he worked at the EPA, in a statement emailed to Earther. “To the great harm of the public and the environment, that agenda will roll on regardless of who replaces him.”

June 27, 2019

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E&E News

Cost of ACE could eclipse benefits by $980M

Joseph Goffman, a former senior official at EPA under the Obama administration, called it “mind-boggling” that Trump administration officials like Wheeler tout emissions reductions in the power sector despite having criticized policies to achieve them.

June 26, 2019

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Washington Examiner

Trump EPA finalizes rule to gut Obama coal plant regulations

“It will yield virtually no reductions in C02 emissions,” said Joseph Goffman, an environmental law professor at Harvard University who was a chief architect of the Clean Power Plan, speaking on a phone call with reporters. The EPA is looking to “simply be a grudging cheerleader for what the utility sector is doing anyway, not for climate change reasons, but simply for business reasons,” he added.

June 26, 2019

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Fox News

Trump EPA rolls back Obama’s coal crackdown

June 26, 2019

In the Media
ABC News

EPA finalizes power plant rules to replace Obama’s signature climate change policy

“To the extent that the agency is either explicitly or implicitly, through its analysis, taking credit for reductions that are occurring as a result of private sector business decisions, that represents a kind of abdication of responsibility on the part of EPA,” Joe Goffman, former EPA administrator for climate under Obama told reporters on Monday.

June 26, 2019

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Inside Climate News

Trump’s Weaker Clean Power Plan Replacement Won’t Stop Coal’s Decline

Joseph Goffman, a former EPA official who helped write the Obama plan, called the Trump administration’s replacement “nothing more than a lawyer’s brief in support of the proposition that the EPA and the administration are fundamentally committed to do nothing about climate change.” (Goffman now runs an environmental program at Harvard Law School.)

June 26, 2019

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CBS News

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler moves to roll back coal-fired power plant rules

Joseph Goffman, an EPA official under President Barack Obama, said he feared that the Trump administration was trying to set a legal precedent that the Clean Air Act gives the federal government “next to no authority to do anything” about climate-changing emissions from the country’s power grid. The Obama rule, adopted in 2015, sought to reshape the country’s power system by encouraging utilities to rely less on dirtier-burning coal-fired power plants and more on electricity from natural gas, solar, wind and other lower or no-carbon sources.

June 26, 2019

In the Media
E&E News

Question back in court: What’s the best way to cut emissions?

“I glanced through the transcripts of the oral arguments in the last couple days and have been trying to think about the atmospherics of the oral argument,” said Joe Goffman, an Obama-era EPA official now at Harvard Law School.

June 26, 2019

In the Media
E&E News

Trump admin’s carbon rule faces legal war

“I’m guessing that the challengers to this rule will frame their case in a way that really forces the EPA to grapple with the fact that, as recently as 2015, the agency came up with a very different interpretation of the best system of emission reduction and that it was backed up with a reality-based record,” said Joe Goffman, former counsel for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation and the current head of Harvard Law School’s environment and energy law program.

June 24, 2019