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Jody Freeman on CGTN America

Jody appeared on CGTN America this week, speaking with Sean Callebs about California’s new zero-emission standards for trucks, clean energy opportunities in the US, and the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks.

August 5, 2020

CleanLaw Podcast

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

Legal Analysis

When industry support for stricter regulation is good business: Considering the car rules and methane standards

Since President Trump’s election, his administration has engaged in an aggressive rollback of environmental regulations promulgated during the Obama administration.[1] These reforms have been animated in part by a desire […]

April 14, 2020

Comprehensive Car Rules Rollbacks by Trump Administration–Backgrounder

We’ve put together a comprehensive overview of the rollback of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy and vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards. Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic […]

April 6, 2020

CleanLaw Podcast

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

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Joe Goffman Interviews Jonathan Lewis on Biofuels – Part II

Joe Goffman speaks again with CATF’s Jonathan Lewis about bioenergy. They discuss the 5 lessons policymakers seeking to promote innovation can learn from the failure of the renewable fuel standard as a policy, why aviation is a critical transportation market to target for emissions reductions, and the low carbon fuel standards of California and British Columbia.

September 30, 2019

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw Podcast: Caitlin McCoy and Joe Goffman Talk about the California Waiver and Clean Car Rules

Caitlin and Joe discuss EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s final rule that preempts California’s greenhouse gas standards and withdraws California’s Clean Air Act waiver.

September 25, 2019

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Joe Goffman Interviews Jonathan Lewis on Biofuels – Part I

Joe speaks with CATF’s Jonathan Lewis about bioenergy. They discuss the history of biofuel mandates, the challenges of lifecycle analysis, the problems associated with land-use, the difficulty in meeting annual mandates, and talk about what US biofuel policy should really be focused on.

August 16, 2019

Looking Forward from California’s Historic Agreement with Automakers

On July 25, California announced that it had reached an agreement with four automakers, Ford, BMW, Volkswagen, and Honda, on compromise standards for fuel efficiency and GHG emissions for model […]

July 26, 2019