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Young Climate Litigants Push High Court Fight Some Call Reckless

The Ninth Circuit’s rehearing denial is “no doubt enormously disappointing” to the plaintiffs after their more than five-year effort to make the government take action “urgently needed to avoid the truly catastrophic consequences of climate change that the entire planet now faces,” Harvard Law professor Richard Lazarus said.

February 19, 2021

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Biden’s Secret Weapon to Cleaning Up Energy Is Spelled FERC

Enter FERC, which can accomplish many of the same goals, said Ari Peskoe, director of Harvard Law School’s Electricity Law Initiative.

January 29, 2021

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Biden’s ‘Fresh Start’ on Emissions Not Seen as Legal ‘Slam Dunk’

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.

January 25, 2021

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Clean Air Issues Take a Top Spot in Biden’s Agency Priorities

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.

January 25, 2021

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Trump Environmental Record Marked by Big Losses, Undecided Cases

“They were swinging for the fences, and they knew if a few cases were able to get courts to agree with their interpretation, that would have a lasting impact,” Hana Vizcarra, a staff attorney at Harvard Law School’s Environmental and Energy Law Program, said of the Trump administration. “If they had another four years, they would have that opportunity.”

January 11, 2021

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Biden’s Climate Goals Get Greener Path as Democrats Take Senate

“FERC will become a Democrat-majority body and there won’t have to be any horse trading with the Republicans to make that happen,” said Ari Peskoe, director of Harvard Law School’s Electricity Law Initiative. “McConnell was not shy about holding up Obama’s nominees, so there was precedent for sitting on the nominee forever.”

January 8, 2021

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Biden to Move Fast to Strike Down Trump’s Environmental Agenda

“They’ll be starting right out of the gate,” predicted Jody Freeman, director of the Environmental and Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School.

November 9, 2020

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Amy Coney Barrett on Court Seen Handcuffing Agencies’ Climate-Change Fight

A Supreme Court that’s more skeptical of agency authority could look kindly on Trump administration rewrites of federal rules limiting the federal government’s reach when it comes to clean water oversight and required environmental analysis. With Barrett’s confirmation, the court is more likely to “embrace those more self-limited interpretations,” said Joe Goffman, executive director of Harvard Law School’s Enivronmental and Energy Law Program.

October 9, 2020

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‘Bloomberg Markets: The Close’ Full Show (9/28/2020)

Romaine Bostick & Taylor Riggs bring you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before the closing bell on Wall Street and tackle the SCOTUS impact on the Affordable Care Act, the delayed TikTok ban and oil’s lackluster demand Guests Today: Meb Farber of Cambria Investment Management, Jonathan Gruber of MIT, David Conrod of FocusPoint, Jose Antonio Vargas of Define American, Chris Davis of Davis Advisors, Jason Katz of UBS, Richard Lazarus of Harvard Law School.

September 30, 2020