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What Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation will mean for environmental law and Joe Biden’s climate plan

Amy Coney Barrett’s likely confirmation to the Supreme Court to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a Monday Senate vote will add a conservative sixth vote to an already-conservative majority, with potentially far-reaching implications for American law. Barrett’s confirmation will scramble the current distribution of power on the Court, displacing the chief justice as its putative center and pulling it rightward.

October 23, 2020

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Gutting fuel economy standards during a pandemic is peak Trump

“But when we look at the numbers,” Caitlin McCoy, a staff attorney at Harvard’s Environmental & Energy Law Program, wrote in an analysis of the rule, “the vehicle purchase price would be reduced by $977 to $1,083 relative to the Obama rules, but the increased price at the pump of driving less fuel-efficient vehicles would be $1,423 to $1,461 (at 3% discount rate).” Even at a higher 7 percent discount rate, increased fuel costs outweigh vehicles savings in the most optimistic scenario.

April 9, 2020

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Anthony Kennedy’s replacement could make it harder to fight climate change

June 29, 2018

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Scott Pruitt is slowly strangling the EPA

March 8, 2018

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Scott Pruitt is slowly strangling the EPA

January 30, 2018

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Rick Perry’s proposed coal bailout just died an unceremonious death

January 9, 2018

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A moment of truth arrives for Rick Perry’s widely hated coal bailout

December 11, 2017