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CleanLaw Podcast

Welcome to the CleanLaw podcast, where EELP faculty and staff talk with experts about environmental and energy law, new research, and the latest news on environmental regulation, public health, and environmental justice.

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Electricity Law

CleanLaw: Electric Utility Mergers and Consolidation – Scott Hempling and Ari Peskoe

Ari speaks with Scott Hempling about Scott’s new book, Regulating Mergers and Acquisitions of the U.S. Electric Utilities: Industry Concentration and Corporate Complication.

February 17, 2021

CleanLaw: Katharine Hayhoe and Joe Goffman Talk Climate Science, Communication, and Hope

Joe and Professor Hayhoe talks about the cutting edge science of climate change attribution, how she tries to help the public understand the reality of climate change by making it local, how best to assess and report the impacts of it, and why she is hopeful.

December 15, 2020

Electricity Law

CleanLaw: The Politics of Carbon Pricing with Matto Mildenberger and Ari Peskoe

Electricity Law Initiative director Ari Peskoe speaks with Matto Mildenberger, assistant professor of political science at the UC Santa Barbara, about the politics of carbon pricing.

December 1, 2020

EPA Mission Tracker

CleanLaw: Next Generation Environmental Regulations, Joe Goffman interviews Cynthia Giles

Our executive director Joe Goffman speaks again with Cynthia Giles, former Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. They discuss her ongoing work examining how well environmental rules do in ensuring compliance, where they fail, and how to ensure they succeed.

November 19, 2020

Clean Water
Environmental Justice

CleanLaw — Erin Brockovich and Caitlin McCoy on Water Pollution Regulations and Effective Advocacy

They discuss enduring water pollution issues in the US and how people can get involved to ensure better water quality in their communities and beyond.

November 5, 2020

Federal Policy Analysis
Regulatory Rollbacks

CleanLaw: Department of the Interior under the Trump Administration

EELP Fellow Laura Bloomer discusses her white paper in which she led a team that analyzed political leadership at the Department of the Interior (DOI) during the past four years and offers a path forward for a Biden administration.

October 15, 2020

State & Regional Climate Strategies

CleanLaw: Caitlin McCoy and Aladdine Joroff on Recent Mass AG Decision on Local Natural Gas Usage Laws

Caitlin and Aladdine discuss the recent decision seeking to limit the use of natural gas in buildings and comments the Clinic submitted on behalf of Mothers Out Front Massachusetts

September 1, 2020

Environmental Justice

CleanLaw — Joe Goffman with Francesca Dominici on the Intersection of Air Pollution, Coronavirus, and Black Communities

Air pollution continues to be a public health threat and is linked with increased coronavirus death rates.

August 25, 2020

CleanLaw: Joe Goffman and Sam Ricketts on Climate Policy

Joe and Sam discuss Sam’s experience developing climate change policy proposals, how he and his colleagues thought through the problems they had to address, and how to think about the climate change policy proposals recently unveiled in the House of Representatives and by the Biden campaign.

August 20, 2020