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Legal Analysis

EPA’s Authority to Regulate Hazardous Air Pollutants from Power Plants: the Appropriate and Necessary Finding

EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), finalized in 2012 and under section 112 of the Clean Air Act, regulates the amount of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) […]

March 9, 2022

Explainer

Power Sector Regulations

Compilation of our posts on the Biden administration’s efforts to advance power sector regulations, including rebuilding after the Trump roll backs.

January 4, 2022

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw – Carrie Jenks and Kevin Poloncarz on the Petitions to the Supreme Court of the D.C. Circuit’s decision vacating ACE

What’s at stake with the appeals to the Supreme Court of the D.C. Circuit’s decision to vacate the Trump Administration’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule for the power sector.

September 8, 2021

EELP News

Jody Freeman on The Legal and Regulatory Perspective at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Spring Exercise

Recently, Jody Freeman joined Harvard Kennedy School Professor Joe Aldy and HKS students to speak about the role of regulation in making changes to environmental and energy policy, focusing on […]

April 29, 2021

CleanLaw Podcast

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

Legal Analysis

Deepwater Horizon Ten Years Later: Reviewing agency and regulatory reforms

Exactly two weeks ago (April 20th) was the tenth anniversary of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and blowout of the Macondo well it was drilling in the […]

May 4, 2020

Explainer

Backgrounder: Appropriate & Necessary Finding — Mercury & Air Toxics (MATS)

April 16, 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

Legal Analysis

The Coal Ash Rule Trilogy Spanning Obama, Trump, and the D.C. Circuit

This article reviews three rules — the 2015 Rule, the 2018 Amendments and the 2019 Proposed Rule — comparing each rule’s coal ash impoundment closure initiation deadlines, alternative closure extensions, and consideration of cost.

January 28, 2020