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Bloomberg

Obama Policy on Climate-Warming Chemicals Partially Revived

Caitlin McCoy, an attorney for Harvard Law School’s Environmental & Energy Law Program, said the ruling will block the EPA from trying to use court decisions as cover for broader policy moves in other contexts.

April 9, 2020

Utility Dive

Southwest Generation purchase of Xcel gas plant to raise JPMorgan affiliation question again at FERC

The argument that FERC’s failure to define the relationship may open a loophole for market manipulation is “plausible,” Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard told Utility Dive in an email, though he’s not sure how real and present that threat may be.

April 9, 2020

Democratic senators urge Trump administration to halt environmental rollbacks during pandemic

The administration does not have time at this point to propose an entirely new rule, perform the required formal steps and avoid the possibility it is rejected by incoming Democrats, according to Caitlin McCoy, a staff attorney at the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program.

April 9, 2020

E&E News

Texas grid fight may echo nationally

“The future of competitive transmission is on the line,” said Ari Peskoe, director of Harvard Law School’s Electricity Law Initiative.

March 23, 2020

Nature

This year’s US elections could be a climate-policy showdown

A first step for any future Democratic president would be to rejoin the 2015 Paris climate accord and restore climate rules and regulations that Trump has been busy repealing, says Jody Freeman, an environmental-law specialist at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a former White House adviser under Obama.

March 23, 2020

Living on Earth

Trump EPA Races to Finish Rollbacks

Jody Freeman, a Professor at Harvard Law School, joins Host Steve Curwood to discuss the significance of the greenhouse gas regulations and how a new administration could usher in a new era of climate policy.

March 23, 2020

E&E News

Pandemic ‘totally predictable.’ How Trump dismissed warnings

EPA officials have said the task force responsible for setting assumptions for the last National Climate Assessment was directed by Obama political appointees, who, they say, were concerned with making the effects of climate change look as dire as possible to justify regulation. But Joe Goffman, EPA’s top lawyer on air and climate under Obama, said it was run by career staff.

March 23, 2020

Huffington Post

The Absurdity Of Trump’s Bid To Bail Out The Oil And Gas Industry

That makes the extension of taxpayer money to drilling companies that much harder to square, said Caitlin McCoy, a fellow at the environmental and energy law program at Harvard Law School.

March 23, 2020

Bloomberg Environment

INSIGHT: Harvard’s Lazarus Expects More EPA Blundering on Climate Change

The Trump administration is planning to repeal one of President Obama’s signature accomplishments—the slashing of greenhouse gas emissions by cars and trucks. Harvard Law School Professor Richard Lazarus says Trump seems on track to lose in court by repeating the George W. Bush administration’s mistake.

March 10, 2020