Washington Examiner

“EPA’s out to make law here,” Joseph Goffman, a former EPA air official during the Obama administration, told Abby. That law, he added, is to tie the hands of a future administration, not to do away with the agency’s authority completely.

Joe Goffman, an environmental law professor at Harvard University and former EPA official who helped write the Clean Power Plan, told me the Trump administration replacement rule further discourages red states from pursuing climate change policies.

“It will yield virtually no reductions in C02 emissions,” said Joseph Goffman, an environmental law professor at Harvard University who was a chief architect of the Clean Power Plan, speaking on a phone call with reporters. The EPA is looking to “simply be a grudging cheerleader for what the utility sector is doing anyway, not for climate change reasons, but simply for business reasons,” he added.