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E.P.A. Finalizes Its Plan to Replace Obama-Era Climate Rules

Jody Freeman, a professor of environmental law at Harvard University and a former legal counsel in the Obama administration, said the expected legal battle would be “a blockbuster” if it reached the Supreme Court. “It could foreclose a new administration from doing something more ambitious,” she said.

June 19, 2019

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84 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump

The Trump administration has often used a “one-two punch” when rolling back environmental rules, said Caitlin McCoy, a fellow in the Environmental and Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School who tracks regulatory rollbacks. “First a delay rule to buy some time, and then a final substantive rule.”

June 5, 2019

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Harvard Law School’s Class of 1979: The ‘Love Section’

After our article on Jan. 19 about three marriages from a Harvard Law School section, Richard J. Lazarus wrote The Times. Professor Lazarus, who also teaches first-year law students at Harvard, applauded the newlyweds and his friend and colleague Jon Hanson, the head of that featured section (1L, Section 6).

March 11, 2019

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New E.P.A. Plan Could Free Coal Plants to Release More Mercury Into the Air

“The Obama administration itself had broadly accepted that it is difficult to put a specific dollar-figure on some health benefits, for instance, avoiding lost I.Q. points in infants or other fetal harm that has been linked to pregnant women eating mercury-contaminated fish. For that reason, the original rule argued against using a strict cost-benefit analysis to decide whether the regulation should be imposed, said Joseph Goffman, the executive director of Harvard Law School’s Environmental and Energy Law Program.”

January 3, 2019

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How Trump Is Ensuring That Greenhouse Gas Emissions Will Rise

“’These are life-extension projects for coal plants,’ said Jody Freeman, a Harvard law professor and former counsel to the Obama administration. ‘It’s a very calculated effort to go in the opposite direction from what’s needed.”’

December 3, 2018

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Trump Says He’ll Nominate Andrew Wheeler to Head the E.P.A.

December 3, 2018

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Coal Is Killing the Planet. Trump Loves It.

October 8, 2018

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Trump Put a Low Cost on Carbon Emissions. Here’s Why It Matters.

Jody Freeman is quoted in this article about the Trump administration’s recent proposals to weaken Obama-era regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and power plants.

August 23, 2018

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Trump’s Biggest Climate Move Yet Is Bad for Everyone

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August 2, 2018