Biden Administration Status Update Accounting for Health and Environmental Impacts in Agency Decision-making Click here to return to the Status of Biden Administration on Climate, Public Health and Environment, and Environmental Justice main page. To go directly to our Secret Science Rule and the […] October 26, 2022
Biden Administration Status UpdateDisaster Response Resilience to Climate Change Impacts Click here to return to the Status of Biden Administration on Climate, Public Health and Environment, and Environmental Justice main page. The Biden administration has released billions in funds for […] October 26, 2022
Electricity LawPower Sector Electricity Law Initiative Files Brief Supporting Clean Energy in the Southeast The amicus brief provides context for the advocates’ arguments by explaining why FERC’s regulation of interstate transmission service is necessary to counteract utilities’ market power, highlighting the key principles underlying FERC’s transmission rules, and outlining how FERC’s approval of SEEM violates FERC’s transmission rules. September 28, 2022
Inflation Reduction ActOffshore Energy The IRA Offshore Energy Leasing Provisions’ Potential Impacts August 25, 2022
Environmental JusticeInflation Reduction Act The Inflation Reduction Act’s Implications for Biden’s Climate and Environmental Justice Priorities A look at the IRA’s impact on the Biden administration’s regulatory priorities for addressing climate change and how it will support the administration’s EJ goals. August 12, 2022
Environmental JusticeInflation Reduction Act Breaking Down the Environmental Justice Provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act The Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) environmental justice (EJ) provisions represent the first time the Biden administration’s EJ agenda has been expressly included in a statute. However, the IRA leaves it […] August 12, 2022
Administrative LawClean AirPower SectorSupreme Court Decisions Supreme Court Embraces the Major Questions Doctrine as Limiting but Leaving the Door Open for Power Sector GHG Regulations West Virginia v. EPA’s surprising journey to the Supreme Court. A look at the key elements of the Court’s decision and the path ahead for EPA. July 1, 2022
Environmental JusticeFederal Policy Analysis DOJ Revives Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs) as Part of EJ Agenda The history of SEPs in federal environmental enforcement and response to legal arguments made by the Trump DOJ alleging that SEPs and other third party-payments violate federal law. June 13, 2022
Federal Policy AnalysisStudents Legal Challenges to President Biden’s Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases Estimates An analysis of the legal arguments for the Biden administration’s continued use of the social cost of GHGs. May 27, 2022
