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Mother Jones

If 2020 Democrats Are Going to Be Serious About Climate, They Need to Cut Out Congress

“A test of an incoming president’s actual seriousness about this issue is whether or not the incoming president will do what second-term Obama did,” says Harvard University Environmental Law Program‘s Joseph Goffman, a former top EPA attorney, “which is put an encompassing priority across the executive branch to identify and marshal all the tools the executive branch has to promote climate solutions and clean energy.”

May 29, 2019

E&E News

Interior defends use of API standard in revised rules

“I would not expect them to incorporate something as technical as this without providing an opportunity to comment on this specific standard,” said Hana Vizcarra, a staff attorney at Harvard Law School’s Environmental & Energy Law Program.

May 23, 2019

E&E News

Past officials don’t see ‘grand plan’ on climate modeling

“This is essentially saying, ‘We are instituting a process for nurturing doubt,'” said Joseph Goffman, EPA’s top lawyer for the Office of Air and Radiation during the Obama administration. Goffman accused Wheeler of ignoring the fact that climate models are always under review by the scientists who develop and use them and who rely on them to deliver quality results.

May 21, 2019

E&E News

Watchdog: Interior regs at legal risk because of API text

Hana Vizcarra, a staff attorney at the Harvard Law School Environmental & Energy Law Program, said a final rule can differ from the proposed version within reason, but in this case, BSEE is incorporating a specific, technical document without previously mentioning it.

May 21, 2019

E&E News

Interior defends use of API standard in revised rules

May 21, 2019

Law360

Opaque Trade Groups May Need To Name Names In Court

“Judge Pillard’s apparent invocation of the kind of tougher Article III standards often promoted by business interests to seek to persuade courts to deny environmentalists Article III standing is, to say the least, ironic,” Harvard Law School environmental law professor Richard Lazarus said.

May 16, 2019

The Revelator

How to Build the Green New Deal? Cities and States May Already Have Answers

Proponents can, and should, look to states and cities for help and inspiration, says Caitlin McCoy, a fellow at Harvard Law School who specializes in in climate, clean air and energy. McCoy just authored a new policy paper that shows areas where state and local governments have been leading and how understanding their progress is crucial to crafting any new sweeping federal legislation.

May 8, 2019

E&E News

These 5 rules could be coming soon

“There are a lot of the things we expect to see relatively soon,” said Hana Vizcarra, a staff attorney at Harvard Law School who works on Harvard’s Regulatory Rollback Tracker. She and Caitlin McCoy, a climate, clean air and energy fellow at Harvard Law School, and other regulatory experts flagged half a dozen actions to keep an eye on as agencies push to complete regulatory rollbacks.

April 29, 2019

Law360

A Broader View Of The US Supreme Court Bar

In 2004, professor Richard Lazarus, then director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown University Law Center, published a law review article discussing “the emergence of a new elite Supreme Court [b]ar and the resulting transformation of the [c]ourt, its plenary docket, and its rulings.”

April 29, 2019