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How The Supreme Court Made ‘Climate History’ In Massachusetts V. EPA

It all began in 1999 when a man named Joe Mendelson, an environmental lawyer who worked for a small public interest group, delivered a petition to the EPA urging them to regulate carbon dioxide as an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act, says Richard Lazarus, author of a new book about the case called, “The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court.”

March 10, 2020

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Study: ‘No Scientific Basis’ For Challenges To EPA Endangerment Finding

“[The paper] is a very useful piece of work and it stands in contrast to the arguments against the endangerment finding that have been offered again and again, because those arguments are rarely — if ever — based on science,” says Joseph Goffman, executive director of the Environmental and Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School. Goffman worked for the EPA during the Obama administration as the senior counsel in the Office of Air and Radiation, but was not involved in the current research.

December 19, 2018