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
Legal Analysis The Congressional Review Act’s Legal Uncertainties This post is an adaptation of Kevin’s longer paper arguing that Congress should repeal the Congressional Review Act. You can download the full paper here. With the 2020 election approaching, […] May 15, 2020
Explainer Interior Rolls Out Controversial E-bike Rules On April 2, 2020, the Department of the Interior proposed new rules regulating the use of electric bikes (e-bikes) on public lands. E-bikes are motor-assisted bicycles controlled with a handlebar […] May 6, 2020
Legal Analysis Deepwater Horizon Ten Years Later: Reviewing agency and regulatory reforms Exactly two weeks ago (April 20th) was the tenth anniversary of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and blowout of the Macondo well it was drilling in the […] May 4, 2020
Legal Analysis Defending Science and Collaborative Conservation: Sage-Grouse and Western Watersheds Project v. Schneider (D. Idaho 2019) This post is an adaptation of Peter’s case comment to be published in the forthcoming Harvard Environmental Law Review Volume 44, Number 2. Click here to download this post as […] April 30, 2020
Legal Analysis Why Congress Should Repeal the Congressional Review Act The Congressional Review Act (CRA) authorizes Congress to quickly review and repeal agency rules. A future administration could work with Congress to nullify Trump-era rollbacks finalized toward the end of […] April 23, 2020
Legal Analysis Three Years After— Where Does Implementation of the Lautenberg Act Stand? On June 22, 2016, President Barack Obama signed into law the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. The Lautenberg Act made substantial revisions to the forty-year-old […] February 26, 2020
Legal Analysis How Statutory Interpretation of the Clean Air Act Serves the Trump Administration’s Deregulatory Agenda We worked with the Case Western Reserve Law Review to publish an article in which we analyze how the Trump administration is using Clean Air Act rulemakings to “deconstruct the […] February 14, 2020
Top 20 Regulatory Rollbacks to Watch in 2020 Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas Standards for Cars Ongoing litigation challenging The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule Part One: One National Program which blocks California from setting its own […] January 6, 2020