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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

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Caitlin McCoy and Joe Goffman on the Affordable Clean Energy Rule

Caitlin and Joe discuss their new paper, Repeal of the Clean Power Plan and the final Affordable Clean Energy Rule.

November 19, 2019

Legal Analysis

EPA’s Attack on New Source Review and Other Air Quality Protection Tools

Trump EPA’s changes to the New Source Review program and what effects these changes will have on air quality and public health.

October 31, 2019

Legal Analysis

EPA’s House of Cards: the Affordable Clean Energy Rule

Our white paper discusses EPA’s Repeal of the Clean Power Plan and Affordable Clean Energy rule. We examine EPA’s legally risky strategy in these final rules to curtail its authority […]

October 22, 2019

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Joe Goffman Interviews Kathy Fallon Lambert on Increased Emissions under ACE

Kathy and Joe discuss EPA’s assumptions in the Regulatory Impact Analysis for ACE, the impact of EPA’s current and expected changes to New Source Review that EPA failed to account for, and EPA’s inconsistency in calculating the benefits of reducing fine particle concentrations.

October 8, 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