Legal Analysis New Cost-Benefit Rule Hampers EPA’s Ability to Regulate Harmful Air Pollutants This analysis is a paraphrased excerpt from Hannah Perls’ article Deconstructing Environmental Deregulation under the Trump Administration, published in the Spring 2021 Vermont Law Review. A crucial tool in the […] January 12, 2021
CleanLaw Podcast CleanLaw: Next Generation Environmental Regulations, Joe Goffman interviews Cynthia Giles In this episode, our executive director Joe Goffman speaks again with Cynthia Giles, our guest fellow and former Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. They discuss […] November 19, 2020
Legal Analysis EPA Undermines its Own Environmental Justice Programs EPA’s EJ efforts to-date have been insufficient to address the scale and severity of environmental injustice in the US. November 12, 2020
Legal Analysis 40 Law Scholars Oppose EPA’s Changes to the Ozone Standards-Setting and Science-Advising Process In August, EPA proposed to leave unchanged the current National Ambient Air Quality Standards. The proposal defied accumulating scientific evidence that tightening the standards would be critical to providing adequate […] October 13, 2020
Legal Analysis EPA’s Treatment of the Press EPA leadership has launched continual verbal attacks on the news outlets that report on the agency’s activities, even though both the public and agency staff themselves rely on reporting published […] September 18, 2020
Legal Analysis DOJ Phases Out Supplemental Environmental Projects in Environmental Enforcement SEPs allow EPA to act to protect public health and the environment in ways that couldn’t otherwise be achieved through traditional penalties, which don’t themselves remedy the harms that non-compliance with pollution and waste control requirements cause. August 6, 2020
CleanLaw Podcast CleanLaw: Joe Goffman Speaks with Cynthia Giles about EPA’s Enforcement During Covid-19 For a full transcript of this episode click here. In this episode, which we recorded on May 7, Joe Goffman speaks with Cynthia Giles, former Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office […] June 29, 2020
Legal Analysis Final SAB Report Highlights Missing Justification for EPA’s “Secret Science” Proposal On April 24, 2020, EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) published its final report for the agency’s proposed rule, Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science. This proposal requires EPA to ensure that […] May 8, 2020
Legal Analysis DC Circuit Weighs in on EPA’s Science Mandates At EPA, sound science is inextricably linked to how the agency fulfils its statutory mandates. Willfully failing to get the science right means failing to adequately carry out its legal […] May 7, 2020