Explainer Update: E-Bikes Rules Finalized with Few Changes After reviewing approximately 57,000 public comments, BLM, BOR, FWS, and NPS finalized rules in October and November regarding e-bike use on federal public lands. E-bikes are motor-assisted bicycles controlled with […] February 4, 2021
Legal Analysis EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule: Examining Challenges and Prospects Lead-contaminated drinking water continues to disproportionately affect low-income communities and communities of color, with dangerous long-term health implications. To combat this problem, EPA promulgated the 1991 Lead and Copper Rule […] January 28, 2021
Looking Ahead and Priorities for a Biden Administration – New Resources from EELP With the victory of President-elect Joe Biden, the coming months will be a watershed in the evolution of environmental law and policy. We’ve created two new resources to explain what […] November 19, 2020
Legal Analysis President-Elect Biden Supports a “Carbon Enforcement Mechanism” – Could that Mean a Price on Carbon? As part of his climate agenda, President-elect Joe Biden promises to pass legislation that “establishes an enforcement mechanism” to curb harmful greenhouse gas emissions.[1] What this means is far from […] November 14, 2020
CleanLaw Podcast CleanLaw: Department of the Interior under the Trump Administration EELP Fellow Laura Bloomer discusses her white paper in which she led a team that analyzed political leadership at the Department of the Interior (DOI) during the past four years and offers a path forward for a Biden administration. October 15, 2020
Legal Analysis Managing Public Lands under the Trump Administration and Beyond An analysis of political leadership at the Department of the Interior during the past four years. October 15, 2020
CleanLaw Podcast CleanLaw: Hana Vizcarra Speaks with Kevin McLean on the Toxic Substances Control Act Hana Vizcarra speaks with Kevin McLean, former Associate General Counsel for EPA’s Pesticides and Toxic Substances Law Office, about chemical substances regulation and implementation of the 2016 revisions to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). July 27, 2020
EPA’s Benefit-Cost Proposal in the Context of PM Pollution Regulation Introduction Over the past three years EPA has made it more difficult to achieve greater reductions in fine particle pollution (PM2.5). New studies continue to link long-term exposure of PM2.5 […] July 14, 2020
CleanLaw Podcast CleanLaw: Joe Goffman Speaks with Cynthia Giles about EPA’s Enforcement During Covid-19 Joe speaks with Cynthia about EPA’s rollback of environmental enforcement in a COVID-19 enforcement discretion policy issued at the end of March 2020. June 29, 2020