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CNBC

UPDATE 2-Trump administration replaces Obama-era power plant rule, in boost to coal

Joe Goffman, executive director of the Environmental & Energy Law Program at Harvard. said the new regulation could allow some coal-fired power plants to avoid retirement by making “hardware fixes and operational changes.”

June 20, 2019

ABC News

EPA finalizes power plant rules to replace Obama’s signature climate change policy

“To the extent that the agency is either explicitly or implicitly, through its analysis, taking credit for reductions that are occurring as a result of private sector business decisions, that represents a kind of abdication of responsibility on the part of EPA,” Joe Goffman, former EPA administrator for climate under Obama told reporters on Monday.

June 20, 2019

Earth.com

EPA reverses a rule intended to reduce coal-fired plant emissions

Joseph Goffman served as an EPA official during Obama’s presidency. He fears that the Trump administration is trying to legally guarantee that the Clean Air Act gives the federal government “next to no authority to do anything” about harmful emissions from coal-fired power plants.

June 20, 2019

E&E News

Trump admin’s carbon rule faces legal war

“I’m guessing that the challengers to this rule will frame their case in a way that really forces the EPA to grapple with the fact that, as recently as 2015, the agency came up with a very different interpretation of the best system of emission reduction and that it was backed up with a reality-based record,” said Joe Goffman, former counsel for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation and the current head of Harvard Law School’s environment and energy law program.

June 20, 2019

Trump Administration Finalizes Replacement To Obama’s Clean Power

NPR’s Rachel Martin talks to Joseph Goffman, of the Environmental & Energy Law Program at Harvard, about the end of the Clean Power Plan, which he worked on in the Obama administration.

June 20, 2019

E&E News

Question back in court: What’s the best way to cut emissions?

“I glanced through the transcripts of the oral arguments in the last couple days and have been trying to think about the atmospherics of the oral argument,” said Joe Goffman, an Obama-era EPA official now at Harvard Law School.

June 20, 2019

Green Tech Media

Trump Administration Finalizes Revamp of Obama-Era Coal Rule

Joseph Goffman, who also worked at the EPA during the drafting of the Obama-era rule, said that utilities cannot be expected to make decisions with the public interest as their top priority, as the government should.

June 20, 2019

New York Times

E.P.A. Finalizes Its Plan to Replace Obama-Era Climate Rules

Jody Freeman, a professor of environmental law at Harvard University and a former legal counsel in the Obama administration, said the expected legal battle would be “a blockbuster” if it reached the Supreme Court. “It could foreclose a new administration from doing something more ambitious,” she said.

June 19, 2019

Huffington Post

EPA Air Chief Gave Presentation At Fringe Climate Denier Event, New Emails Show

“The fact that Bill went to talk to a group like this is the cherry on top of a toxic sundae,” Joseph Goffman, a former senior counsel and associate administrator for climate who served in the Obama-era EPA, said by phone.

June 17, 2019