Joseph Goffman – Page 8 – Environmental and Energy Law Program

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Legal war on the Clean Power Plan is over — sort of

“The reality is that this litigation will be the third time that the D.C. Circuit will be hearing a dispute about what counts as the best system of emissions reductions from power plants under Section 111(d) [of the Clean Air Act],” said Joseph Goffman, a former senior EPA official under the Obama administration.

September 24, 2019

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Gizmodo

Trump EPA Moves to Gut Clean Air Act by Deregulating a Major Greenhouse Gas

The proposal to rollback the rules argues that the EPA doesn’t have authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate methane emissions from new and modified oil and gas operations, Joe Goffman, former EPA staff and current executive director of Harvard’s Environmental and Energy Law Program, told Earther. That means if the rule change goes through, any future attempts to regulate the greenhouse gas will meet major hurdles in the courtroom.

September 10, 2019

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Associated Press

EPA moves to revoke rules on oil industry methane leaks

“Essentially, this is the umpteenth iteration of the EPA’s exercise to define away its Clean Air Act authority … to address air pollution and greenhouse gases,” said Joseph Goffman, an EPA air official under Obama.

September 10, 2019

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The Hill

Trump administration proposes weaker monitoring of major greenhouse gas

“I would say it’s a lose-lose-lose. It’s a bad environmental outcome, it’s a bad outcome for what the industry itself is now saying it needs, and it’s pretty much outright sabotage of the EPA’s own legal authority and what the Clean Air Act was enacted to accomplish,” said Joseph Goffman, who helped develop the Obama-era regulations on methane at EPA and now serves as executive director of the Environmental & Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School.

September 3, 2019

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

U.S. proposing easing rules on climate-changing oil emissions

September 3, 2019

In the Media
Gizmodo

Trump EPA Moves to Gut Clean Air Act by Deregulating a Major Greenhouse Gas

September 3, 2019

In the Media
Washington Examiner

Daily on Energy: Legal fight over Trump coal plant rule shows just how divided red and blue states are

Joe Goffman, an environmental law professor at Harvard University and former EPA official who helped write the Clean Power Plan, told me the Trump administration replacement rule further discourages red states from pursuing climate change policies.

August 20, 2019

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E&E News

Small producers push EPA to gut Obama methane agenda

Former top EPA official Joe Goffman, who worked at the agency under President Obama, pushed back on the suggestion that low production wells were a minor source of emissions.

August 12, 2019

In the Media
E&E News

New oil and gas rule may ignore methane

While groups like IPAA see a shifting regulatory structure as a way of easing costs for certain oil and gas producers, former EPA official Joseph Goffman warned the agency still needed more information to understand what that would mean for controlling emissions.

August 12, 2019