Regulatory Tracker BSEE Blowout Preventer and Well Control Rule Following the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, DOI altered its regulatory scheme and consolidated blowout prevention and well control requirements. In 2023, the Biden administration revised the 2019 Well Control rule. August 23, 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
EELP News The Biden Administration’s First 100 Days: Undoing the Undoing of Environmental Protection Law On April 8, Jody Freeman and Richard Lazarus presented a webinar co-sponsored by EELP and the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Their discussion focused on the efforts over the […] April 22, 2021
US Regulatory Barriers to an Ambitious Paris Agreement Commitment Updated April 22, 2021 Today, President Biden announced a commitment to reduce national greenhouse (GHG) emissions 50–52% by 2030. This commitment will be part of the United States’ “nationally determined […] April 21, 2021
Adapting Superfund Remedial Plans for Climate Change With the effects of climate change becoming increasingly dire, hundreds of Superfund sites are in danger of destabilizing and releasing toxic chemicals into nearby neighborhoods and the environment.[1] A 2019 […] March 12, 2021
