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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

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Ari Peskoe with Jason Burwen on Electricity Markets and Storage

Ari Peskoe talks with Jason Burwen, vice president for policy at the US Energy Storage Association. They discuss new electricity market rules that aim to pay storage resources for the value they provide to our energy system.

January 15, 2020

FERC’s Clean Energy Boycott Distorts PJM Prices and Discards History

This article appeared in UtilityDive on January 7, 2019. FERC’s recent decision setting new rules for PJM’s capacity auction will exclude clean energy resources from PJM’s procurement and force PJM […]

January 7, 2020