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ACE lawsuits are legal déjà vu for two judges

“This is their second time looking at these questions. And the first time, they made a big investment in wrapping their minds around a government position that pointed in an entirely different direction,” said Joe Goffman, the Obama air adviser considered an architect of the Clean Power Plan who now runs Harvard’s Environmental and Energy Law Program.

October 9, 2020

In the Media

Biden would face hurdles undoing Trump environmental rollbacks

Joseph Goffman, an Obama administration Environmental Protection Agency lawyer, said the rulemaking process usually takes 18 to 36 months.

October 9, 2020

In the Media

Judges Hear Arguments in President Trump’s Biggest Climate Rollback

“The Trump administration has really taken a go-for-broke approach,” said Joseph Goffman, executive director of Harvard University Law School’s Environmental & Energy Law Program and a former E.P.A. official under President Barack Obama.

October 9, 2020

In the Media

High court in Trump mold could undercut key law for climate

Joseph Goffman, executive director of Harvard University Law School’s Environmental & Energy Law Program and a former EPA official under Obama, said Biden’s environment agency would be forced to write legally conservative rules that nonetheless aim for aggressive emissions reductions.

October 6, 2020

In the Media

Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation could erode US EPA’s authority on climate rules

“You could leave Massachusetts v. EPA untouched, but you could drain it of its efficacy by interpreting away the other authorities within the Clean Air Act to address CO2 in any kind of meaningful way,” said Joe Goffman, former general counsel in the Obama EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation.

September 30, 2020

In the Media

How a More Conservative Supreme Court Could Impact Environmental Laws

“I view Barrett being added to the court as taking it even further in the direction it was already going,” said Jody Freeman, founding director of the Environmental & Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School.

September 30, 2020

In the Media

Trump’s EPA Chief Boasts About Progress as Predecessors Scoff

“EPA Administrator Wheeler has been unrelenting in his efforts to defy science and deny the agency’s obligation to protect public health and the environment from the myriad harms of air and water pollution,” said Joe Goffman, a former EPA associate assistant administrator who is now an executive director of Harvard University’s Environmental and Energy Law Program.

September 24, 2020

In the Media

Trump administration rolls back curbs on oil industry methane emissions

Joe Goffman, former EPA senior counsel and director at Harvard’s Environmental and Energy Law Program, said reducing methane from oil and gas is necessary to combat climate change.

August 24, 2020

In the Media

EPA eroding New Source Review program, former official says

“Most of these actions have been issued with little fanfare, often without analysis of their potential effects and without
acknowledging or revealing clearly to the public that many of the actions have a cumulative or compounding effect on each
other and thus on the effectiveness of NSR,” Janet McCabe, head of the EPA’s air office during the Obama administration,
Joseph Goffman and William Niebling said in a white paper released Thursday.

July 27, 2020