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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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EPA Mission Tracker
Federal Policy Analysis

CleanLaw: Joe Goffman Speaks with Cynthia Giles about EPA’s Enforcement During Covid-19

Joe speaks with Cynthia about EPA’s rollback of environmental enforcement in a COVID-19 enforcement discretion policy issued at the end of March 2020.

June 29, 2020

Power Sector

CleanLaw: Ari Peskoe speaks with Leah Stokes about State Clean Energy Policies

Ari Peskoe speaks with Leah Stokes, Professor of Political Science at UC Santa Barbara about state clean energy policies.

June 18, 2020

Electricity Law

CleanLaw: Ari Peskoe Talks about Attacks on Net Metering for Rooftop Solar

Ari describes a FERC petition that would stall the growth of rooftop solar and other small-scale generation and a petition that ELI and others filed in opposition to the petition.

June 10, 2020

Clean Cars

CleanLaw: Caitlin McCoy Speaks with Bethany Davis Noll about Clean Car Rules

Caitlin and Bethany discuss the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient Vehicles Rule, which weakens fuel economy and GHG standards for cars and light trucks. They share some insights into the rule and how it could be challenged.

May 27, 2020

CleanLaw: Jody Freeman Speaks with Alex Griswold about Trump Rollbacks and Staying Optimistic

Jody Freeman speaks with Alex Griswold about the Trump-era environmental rollbacks that are most troubling to Jody, and why she is still optimistic that we can do better.

April 29, 2020

Clean Air
Supreme Court Decisions

CleanLaw: Joe Goffman Talks to Richard Lazarus about his New Book “The Rule of Five”

Joe speaks with Richard about his new book, “The Rule of Five,” which describes the strategy, people, and, above all, the lawyering, by both the litigators and the Justices, that led to the seminal Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA.

March 12, 2020

Clean Air
Clean Cars
Methane Emissions
Power Sector

CleanLaw: Restricting EPA’s authority – Joe Goffman and Laura Bloomer Talk Clean Air Act Rollbacks

Laura and Joe talk about how the Trump administration is using regulatory rollbacks to advance new interpretations of the Clean Air Act that restrict EPA’s authority to address climate change and threaten the agency’s long-term ability to deliver needed reductions in air pollution.

March 9, 2020

Climate
Disaster Response

CleanLaw: Judge Alice Hill Speaks with Hana Vizcarra about National Security and Climate Change

Hana talks with Judge Alice Hill about her new book, Building a Resilient Tomorrow, and her experience developing policy on national security and climate change and incorporating climate resilience considerations into federal decisionmaking.

February 11, 2020

Electricity Law

CleanLaw: Ari Peskoe and Joe Goffman Talk about the FERC PJM Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) Order

Joe Goffman interviews Ari Peskoe about the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s December, 2019 order on PJM’s capacity auction.

January 27, 2020