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Killing California car pollution rules could also kill speed limits

There’s a lot more legalese to the administration’s argument, but that line from the Energy Policy and Conservation Act is the foundation, said Caitlin McCoy a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Environmental and Energy Law Program.

October 2, 2019

E&E News

Could Trump’s ‘anti-California agenda’ help him?

“I’m not aware of an EPA administrator coming down on a state like this,” said Joe Goffman, head of the Harvard Environmental & Energy Law Program and an EPA veteran who most recently served the Obama administration as a top Clean Air Act lawyer.

September 30, 2019

E&E News

Senate Democrat wanted top air lawyer. It didn’t happen

“Even if she hadn’t worked specifically on the Clean Power Plan, her consummate professionalism would make her an appealing detailee for the ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee,” said Goffman, now executive director of the Environmental & Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School, about Schmidt.

September 25, 2019

E&E News

Legal war on the Clean Power Plan is over — sort of

“The reality is that this litigation will be the third time that the D.C. Circuit will be hearing a dispute about what counts as the best system of emissions reductions from power plants under Section 111(d) [of the Clean Air Act],” said Joseph Goffman, a former senior EPA official under the Obama administration.

September 24, 2019

LA Times

Opinion: Trump’s bad faith auto emissions mandate is another example of presidential power run amok

According to a report by Harvard Law School’s Energy and Environmental Law Program: “Two federal district courts have held, for separate reasons, that the Energy Policy and Conservation Act does not preempt California’s pollution standards, and that fuel economy standards can coexist with pollution standards. In addition, the Supreme Court has held that pollution standards and fuel economy standards are legally distinct and aimed at fulfilling different congressional purposes, noting … there is no reason to think the two agencies cannot both administer their obligations and yet avoid inconsistency.”

September 24, 2019

Law360

FERC Says Its Authority Preempts New Hampshire Power Law

Ari Peskoe, the director of Electricity Law Initiatives at Harvard Law School, told Law360 it is rare a state so blatantly sets a wholesale rate.

September 24, 2019

Vogue

Inside the Sunrise Movement: Six Weeks With the Young Activists Defining the Climate Debate

When I speak to Jody Freeman, a professor of environmental law at Harvard University and a former legal counsel in the Obama administration, she tells me that while she admires the ambitiousness of the plan, “I’m not sure that the folks pushing these policies have a pragmatic view of what is possible, given how hard this is politically.”

September 24, 2019

Trump Administration To Revoke California’s Power Over Car Emissions

September 18, 2019

The Looming War Between Trump and California Over Fuel Efficiency

Then we speak with Jody Freeman, Professor at Harvard Law School and the founding director of the Law School’s Environmental Law and Policy Program. She served as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in the Obama White House and joins us to discuss her op-ed in The New York Times “The Auto Rule Rollback That Nobody Wants, Except Trump” and the looming war between Trump and the State of California over the president’s peculiar obsession of undoing anything Obama achieved. Even in this case when increased fuel efficiency has the support of major auto manufacturers Ford, BMW, VW and Honda and it means cleaner air, less global warming and trillions saved at the pump by American consumers.

September 17, 2019