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Michael Regan, Biden’s E.P.A. Pick, Faces ‘Massive Reconstruction and Rebuilding’

“He faces a massive reconstruction and rebuilding operation,” said Jody Freeman, a Harvard University law professor who served as White House counselor for energy and climate change in the Obama administration.

December 18, 2020

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E.P.A.’s Final Deregulatory Rush Runs Into Open Staff Resistance

Jody Freeman, a professor of environmental law at Harvard and a former adviser to the Obama administration, called the rule a “little I.E.D.,” referring to an improvised explosive device, or roadside bomb, aimed at slowing a Biden administration’s plans to overturn Mr. Trump’s rules.

November 30, 2020

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Kavanaugh Fixes Error in Election Opinion After Vermont Complaint

The Supreme Court began noting corrections and changes in opinions following a 2014 study that showed how, for years and without public notice, it had been altering its decisions long after they were issued, said Richard Lazarus, a law professor at Harvard University and the study’s author.

October 30, 2020

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UPDATED: The Trump Administration Is Reversing Nearly 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List.

While other administrations have emphasized cutting regulations, calling them burdensome to industries like coal, oil and gas, the scope of actions under Mr. Trump is “fundamentally different,” said Hana V. Vizcarra, a staff attorney at Harvard Law School’s Environmental and Energy Law Program.

October 19, 2020

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How a Justice Amy Coney Barrett Could Change the U.S.

While Judge Barrett does not have a long record on environmental law, she seems poised to join in the current court’s skepticism of broad regulatory authority. “I view Barrett being added to the court as taking it even further in the direction it was already going,” Jody Freeman, founding director of the Environmental and Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School, told Scientific American.

October 16, 2020

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Judges Hear Arguments in President Trump’s Biggest Climate Rollback

“The Trump administration has really taken a go-for-broke approach,” said Joseph Goffman, executive director of Harvard University Law School’s Environmental & Energy Law Program and a former E.P.A. official under President Barack Obama.

October 9, 2020

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New Supreme Court Term Could End Roberts’s Dominant Role

“The chief’s leadership of the court, which just a few weeks ago appeared to be at its zenith, is now in peril,” said Richard J. Lazarus, a law professor at Harvard who has taught courses on the Supreme Court with Chief Justice Roberts. “An addition of yet another very conservative justice could quickly eliminate the chief’s ability to steer the court toward moderation.”

October 6, 2020

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John Roberts Was Already Chief Justice. But Now It’s His Court.

Richard J. Lazarus, a law professor at Harvard, said Monday’s abortion decision vindicated Chief Justice Roberts’s statements.

July 8, 2020

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Trump, Citing Pandemic, Moves to Weaken Two Key Environmental Protections

“When it comes to trying to unravel this nations’ environmental protection laws, this administration never sleeps,” said Richard Lazarus, professor of environmental law at Harvard University.

June 5, 2020