Legal Analysis – Environmental and Energy Law Program

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Clean Air
Environmental Justice
Students

Ethylene Oxide Emissions Standards for Commercial Sterilization Facilities

A summary of EPA’s EtO final rule for sterilization facilities and the significance of regulating EtO emissions for fenceline communities, plus a look at current litigation and the anticipated effort to roll it back.

May 28, 2025

Administrative Law
Climate
Power Sector
Deregulatory Resources

The Trump Administration’s Aggressive Anti-Regulatory, Pro-Fossil Fuel Directives

Executive orders reflect the administration’s expansive view of executive authority.

April 23, 2025

Electricity Law

How you subsidize Big Tech with your electricity bill

New paper from Eliza Martin and Ari Peskoe explains how utilities are forcing consumers to fund discounts for data centers.

April 7, 2025

Clean Air
Clean Cars
EELP News

Clean Fuel Standard Directed Benefit Mechanisms to Promote Equity

New paper co-authored by Abby Husselbee looks at how CFS programs could be designed to direct public health, mobility, and economic benefits.

April 3, 2025

Methane Emissions

Oil and Gas Well Plugging in Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Act of 1984 requires well owners and operators to plug their wells prior to closure and within one year of ending production. We look at requirements, regulatory tools, funding, and more regarding methane emissions from unplugged wells.

February 10, 2025

Deregulatory Resources

Crisis at DOJ’s Environment & Natural Resources Division

Sommer Engels, Andrew Mergen, and Justin Pidot write in LegalPlanet that dismantling ENRD will be disastrous for future administrations, the American people, and even for the Trump administration.

February 4, 2025

Clean Air
Deregulatory Resources

The President Targets EPA’s Authority to Address Climate Change — Will He Succeed?

Jody Freeman and Carrie Jenks on the future of the endangerment finding.

January 29, 2025

Administrative Law
Federal Policy Analysis

D.C. Circuit Undermines CEQ’s Regulatory Authority Under NEPA

Summary of the Marin Audubon decision and discussion of the case’s legal significance and emerging and potential consequences.

December 5, 2024

Clean Air
Inflation Reduction Act
Methane Emissions
Power Sector

Final Rule Implementing the Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems

Analysis of the changes EPA made in the final rule in response to public comments and reasoning for the changes.

December 2, 2024