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Companies Kick the Plastic Can Down the Road (Again)

June 10, 2024

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Washington Tries to Break Power Grid Logjams

May 13, 2024

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Electricity Transmission Plan Likely to Get New Look in Washington

June 9, 2023

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The Texas Freeze: Why the Power Grid Failed

“With everything there is a trade-off,” said Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard Law School. “More resilience is potentially more expensive, but electricity is an essential service. These are hard decisions.”

February 22, 2021

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Trump, Biden Square Off Over Environmental Regulations

“The administration came into office with an unnervingly good understanding of how the machinery of regulation works and they did a pretty effective job of sabotaging it,” said Joe Goffman, executive director of the Environmental & Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School. The approach will make it tougher for a new administration to carry out its objectives.

July 20, 2020

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Latest Term Shows John Roberts in Command of Shifting Coalitions

“He believes very strongly that people should not look at the court and see Republicans and Democrats, that they not see judges as mere partisans,” said Harvard law professor Richard Lazarus, a longtime friend of the chief justice. “It’s an uphill battle, both against the outside forces, and sometimes within the court itself.”

July 14, 2020

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Wildfires Drove PG&E to Bankruptcy, Where Utility Must Change to Survive

Ari Peskoe, director of Harvard Law School’s electricity law initiative, said the changing nature of PG&E’s customer base mirrors broader challenges to the monopolistic business model many U.S. utilities have enjoyed for decades.

“There’s a larger issue at hand regarding how utilities are coping with new technology,” Mr. Peskoe said. “Maybe this is an opportunity for the industry to think about this differently.”

February 5, 2019

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Electricity Prices Plummet as Gas, Wind Gain Traction and Demand Stalls

November 30, 2017