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“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“Look, this is an EPA, this is an administration that does not want to do anything about climate change,” said Joseph Goffman, EPA’s top lawyer for the Office of Air and Radiation during the Obama administration.

“This is essentially saying, ‘We are instituting a process for nurturing doubt,'” said Joseph Goffman, EPA’s top lawyer for the Office of Air and Radiation during the Obama administration. Goffman accused Wheeler of ignoring the fact that climate models are always under review by the scientists who develop and use them and who rely on them to deliver quality results.