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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

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