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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 10, 2020

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Regulating methane emissions now means suing the EPA

BP’s actions, in fact, deliver a double bonus: they cut methane emissions, and they demonstrate what kinds of pollution-cutting technologies and strategies are effective and affordable. This provides lessons for other companies, and if and when the EPA heeds BP’s call and regulates methane, the agency will look carefully at BP’s experiences and successes in reducing emissions.

April 9, 2019

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Senate confirms McNamee for FERC seat

Ari Peskoe, Director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard Law School, said he filed a comment with FERC Thursday asking McNamee recuse himself from any cases involving policies he was involved in crafting while at the Energy Department, including Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s proposal to raise power rates for coal and nuclear plants.

“As a matter of law, he is incapable of being an impartial adjudicator,” Peskoe wrote on Twitter.

December 11, 2018