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Clean Cars

Jody Freeman on CGTN America

Jody appeared on CGTN America this week, speaking with Sean Callebs about California’s new zero-emission standards for trucks, clean energy opportunities in the US, and the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks.

August 5, 2020

Regulatory Rollbacks

What’s at Stake in the Trump EPA’s Approach to New Source Review?

“The Trump EPA is making NSR changes that put greater weight on economic imperatives, framing NSR as a regulatory burden to be avoided at every turn without consideration of impacts […]

August 9, 2019

Electricity Law
Power Sector

Electricity Law Initiative Work Cited in FERC Commissioner’s Law Review Article

In a recently published article in the Energy Law Journal, FERC Commissioner Richard Glick and his advisor Matthew Christiansen argue that the laws governing Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decision-making can […]

May 8, 2019

Jody Freeman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

From Harvard Law Today The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced today that Jody Freeman LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’95, Archibald Cox Professor of Law and the founding director of Harvard […]

April 17, 2019

Methane Emissions

Op-Ed: So You Say You Support Methane Regulation? Here’s How To Take Action

As published in the Houston Chronicle. Kudos to BP America for company chairman and president Susan Dio’s bold call on these pages for the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate methane, […]

April 5, 2019

Electricity Law
State & Regional Climate Strategies

The Supreme Court Should Reject Requests for a Do-Over about State Clean Energy Programs

This article appeared in UtilityDive on January 17, 2019. The Court’s previous decision on electricity regulation strikes the right balance between state and FERC authority in restructured power markets. Last […]

January 17, 2019

Clean Cars

Jody Freeman NYT Op-Ed – Trump’s Biggest Climate Move Yet is Bad for Everyone

Today the Trump administration proposed a massive step backwards in fuel economy standards for US cars and light trucks. In defense of the proposal, the administration misstates facts and record […]

August 2, 2018

Power Sector

Jody Freeman and Joe Goffman on Perry’s Plan to Prop up Coal

EELP Director Jody Freeman and incoming Executive Director Joe Goffman call out Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s anti-market plan to prop up coal and nuclear power in today’s New York Times. […]

October 25, 2017