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Solar industry sees a threat to one of its top selling points

If FERC asserts authority over net metered sales, the practice would be effectively killed, according to Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard Law School.

June 8, 2020

Washington Post

Citing an economic emergency, Trump directs agencies across government to waive federal regulations

“The good news is that the president has once again assumed he possesses absolute power to say what the law is, but he does not,” Richard Lazarus, a Harvard University professor of environmental law, said in an email. “That is the job of the courts, and they will reject the president’s effort to sweep away critically important public health protections enacted by Congress and signed by prior Republican and Democratic presidents.”

June 8, 2020

Green Tech Media

Edison Electric Institute Declines to Support Petition Seeking Federal Overturn of Net Metering

If FERC approves the petition, it “could create chaos at the state level,” Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University, said in a Thursday interview. An approval could open up state programs to challenges from utilities in regulatory proceedings and independent lawsuits in federal court, Peskoe said.

June 5, 2020

New York Times

Trump, Citing Pandemic, Moves to Weaken Two Key Environmental Protections

“When it comes to trying to unravel this nations’ environmental protection laws, this administration never sleeps,” said Richard Lazarus, professor of environmental law at Harvard University.

June 5, 2020

E&E News

What Biden can do if Congress balks at his green agenda

“When you’ve got the agencies of the federal government, and you’ve got the power to steer and direct and appoint, that’s a huge power,” said Jody Freeman, who leads the Environmental and Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School and was an environmental policy adviser in the Obama administration.

June 1, 2020

Bloomberg

Gas, Oil Drilling in National Forests May Expand Under Rule Plan

The Forest Service is remaking its oil and gas regulations at a time when it is weakening environmental checks and balances under the National Environmental Policy Act and joining with the BLM in prioritizing logging and fossil fuels development on federal public lands, said Hana Vizcarra, staff attorney at the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program.

June 1, 2020

Bloomberg

Big Oil Loses Bid to Move California Climate Court Fight (2)

The cities and counties “live another day to put forth their claims and argue their case,” said Hana Vizcarra, a staff attorney at Harvard Law School’s Environmental and Energy Law Program.

May 28, 2020

Resistance Dashboard

Law and Environmental Policy Advocacy with Joseph Goffman of Harvard Law’s EELP | Episode 461

Joe Goffman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career working on environmental legislation and how the Harvard Environmental and Energy Law program is tracking the rollbacks at EPA.

May 22, 2020

Utility Dive

PJM, retail suppliers scrambling to appease MOPR concerns amid state threats to exit capacity market

Competitive power suppliers “finally got what they wanted and apparently now recognize what was obvious to the MOPR opponents – discarding state policies is not a durable solution,” Ari Peskoe, Director of Harvard University’s Electricity Law Initiative told Utility Dive in an email. “If one state’s utilities exit, all that the merchants gain from the MOPR expansion disappears.”

May 22, 2020