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CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw: Eric Lipton

Hear our Climate, Clean Air, & Energy Fellow Caitlin McCoy interview Eric Lipton, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for the New York Times. They discuss Eric Lipton’s recent special report, “This is Our Reality Now,” covering the environmental and public health impacts of the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda in four communities across the country.

January 25, 2019

New Clean Water Act Rule

In anticipation of the proposed Clean Water Act rule to be released tomorrow we have put together a memo with relevant background information and what to expect from the proposal. […]

December 10, 2018

Environmental Forum — Reconstruct an Administrative Agency

In the cover article of the November/December Environmental Forum, Executive Director Joe Goffman examines the structures that Scott Pruitt dismantled during his tenure at EPA and offers a blueprint for […]

November 15, 2018

Legal Analysis

Beyond the Waiver: EPA’s Plan to End State GHG Vehicle Standards

The comment period recently closed for the Trump administration’s proposed Light Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards governing model years 2021-2026, known as the Safer Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule. Barring a miraculous change of heart from either party, it looks like the administration and California are eventually headed for a battle royale, with enormous implications for the auto industry, consumers, American federalism, and the planet.

November 5, 2018

Legal Analysis

Legal Analysis of the Proposals to Repeal and Replace the Clean Power Plan

Memorandum on the proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan and the proposed Affordable Clean Energy Rule.

October 11, 2018

Legal Analysis

Mercury and Air Toxics Standards – EPA Review

The stakes and and MATS background.

September 28, 2018

Explainer

The Clean Power Plan Proposed Replacement – Background and Analysis

Last year, EPA proposed to repeal the CPP and issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for its replacement.

September 12, 2018

Legal Analysis

CAFE Standards and the California Preemption Plan

In a nutshell, this is the agencies’ proposed preemption argument: The Energy Policy and Conservation Act has a broad, clear preemption provision which preempts state laws or regulations “related to fuel economy standards or average fuel economy standards” and California’s Advanced Clean Cars program regulations are “related to fuel economy standards” and are thus preempted.

August 24, 2018

CleanLaw Podcast

Podcast with Francesca Dominici on Air Quality, Public Health, and Science

Click here for a full transcript of this episode. Our executive director, Joe Goffman, interviewed Dr. Francesca Dominici recently to talk about public health, pollution, and science. Dominici is Professor […]

July 12, 2018