Legal Analysis D.C. Circuit Undermines CEQ’s Regulatory Authority Under NEPA Summary of the Marin Audubon decision and discussion of the case’s legal significance and emerging and potential consequences. December 5, 2024
Regulatory Tracker NEPA Environmental Review Requirements The National Environmental Policy Act requires federal agencies to assess the environmental impacts of certain proposed actions, including some permit decisions, adoption of agency policy, formal planning, agency projects, and other actions. November 12, 2024
Explainer NAAQS Overview The National Ambient Air Quality Standards program is the cornerstone of EPA’s work to protect public health and the environment. August 29, 2024
Legal Analysis Clean Energy Tax Credits & Changes Made by the Inflation Reduction Act How the IRA could create a sea change in clean energy financing. November 20, 2023
CleanLaw Podcast CleanLaw Quick Take: The Debt Ceiling Bill and NEPA Permitting Reform with Ari Peskoe and Carrie Jenks Hannah Perls, Carrie Jenks, and Ari Peskoe break down recent changes to federal permitting passed as part of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, aka the debt ceiling bill, signed by President Biden on June 3rd, 2023. June 8, 2023
Legal Analysis DOJ Revives Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs) as Part of EJ Agenda The history of SEPs in federal environmental enforcement and response to legal arguments made by the Trump DOJ alleging that SEPs and other third party-payments violate federal law. June 13, 2022
Legal Analysis Legal Challenges to President Biden’s Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases Estimates An analysis of the legal arguments for the Biden administration’s continued use of the social cost of GHGs. May 27, 2022
Structural Deregulation—Jody Freeman and Sharon Jacobs in the Harvard Law Review “Modern critics of the administrative state portray agencies as omnipotent behemoths, invested with vast delegated powers and largely unaccountable to the political branches of government. This picture, we argue, understates […] December 10, 2021
Biden’s First 100 Days of Climate Action Over the past four years, EELP closely tracked the Trump administration’s environmental deregulatory efforts. After the 2020 presidential election, we shifted our focus to assessing what these deregulatory actions would […] May 11, 2021
