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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

EELP News

Electricity Law Initiative Work Cited in FERC Commissioner’s Law Review Article

In a recently published article in the Energy Law Journal, FERC Commissioner Richard Glick and his advisor Matthew Christiansen argue that the laws governing Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decision-making can […]

May 8, 2019

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Jacob Mays Talks with Ari Peskoe about Capacity Markets

Ari Peskoe interviews Dr. Jacob Mays, who explains why regional power markets adopted capacity markets and outlines his research on the connection between risk and power plant operating and capital […]

May 3, 2019

Legal Analysis

Energy EOs In Depth: Administration Opaque on Why It’s Studying Regional Energy Bottlenecks

This is part of a series analyzing the April 10th executive orders on energy infrastructure. Section 7 of an April 10 Presidential Executive Order tasks the Departments of Energy and […]

April 30, 2019

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Caitlin McCoy and Robin Just on Keystone XL Presidential Permit

Communications Director Robin Just speaks with Climate, Clean Air, and Energy Fellow Caitlin McCoy about developments in the Keystone XL permitting process, now that President Trump has issued both a […]

April 11, 2019