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Atlantic Richfield Gets Partial Win in Superfund SCOTUS Case

It’s a mixed result, Harvard Law School professor Richard J. Lazarus said, because the decision “keeps alive the potential for suits under state law in state courts related to Superfund cleanups in future cases,” but with the “major catch” that challengers must first get the EPA’s approval.

April 22, 2020

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EPA Chief Says Virus-Linked Looser Enforcement ‘Very Mild’

Cynthia Giles, who held Bodine’s post at the EPA under the Obama administration, also said she recognizes the EPA must respond to what is clearly “a very unusual situation today.”

April 9, 2020

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Obama Policy on Climate-Warming Chemicals Partially Revived

Caitlin McCoy, an attorney for Harvard Law School’s Environmental & Energy Law Program, said the ruling will block the EPA from trying to use court decisions as cover for broader policy moves in other contexts.

April 9, 2020

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Trump’s Best Shot at Saving Coal Is an Obscure Power Market

“They’re taking these markets in a totally different direction than states want to go,” said Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard Law School. “It could backfire quickly.”

March 9, 2020

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Making Big Oil Pay for Climate Change May Be Impossible

Hana Vizcarra, a staff attorney at Harvard Law School’s Environmental and Energy Law Program, said the increasing need to find someone other than taxpayers to pay the costs of climate change will continue to drive state and local governments toward litigation. Nevertheless, she’s skeptical about their chances for victory.

January 27, 2020

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Exxon’s Climate Trial Is Over, But the Legal War Is Just Beginning

Hana Vizcarra, a staff attorney at Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program, said nuisance lawsuits are difficult to make because plaintiffs must “draw the line” from a company’s actions to the damage done. The continued fight over state jurisdiction will be crucial, she said.

November 13, 2019

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Big Environmental Term for Supreme Court? Too Soon to Tell

Harvard Law School professor Richard J. Lazarus said the outcome of the case could have impacts in other contexts, including a set of cases from state and local governments seeking to hold energy companies responsible for the effects of climate change.

October 3, 2019

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EPA Wants to Revoke California Auto Regulation Powers

“Going for preemption is the nuclear option,” said Jody Freeman, a Harvard environmental law professor and former official in Barack Obama’s White House who helped broker the 2009 pact that aligned fuel efficiency standards between the federal agencies California. President Donald Trump “is saying to the auto companies: ‘California has no legal authority in our opinion, so it can’t threaten to set its own standards, so you don’t need to make a deal.”’

September 6, 2019

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Trump Said the Electric Grid’s Under Threat, But Regulators Aren’t Acting

“The political winds that created this docket — I don’t know if they’re still blowing or not,” said Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University.

March 4, 2019