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Jody Freeman on Shift Key: Clean Air, the Endangerment Rescission, and What’s Next

On a podcast, Jody discusses the endangerment finding and the future of climate law.

February 17, 2026

Legal Analysis

Climate Brief: The Legal Reasoning Behind the Endangerment Rescission

How the Trump Administration justified eliminating the bedrock finding for federal greenhouse-gas regulation, and what comes next.

February 17, 2026

Legal Analysis

One Year of Trump’s ‘Energy Emergency’ in Context and in Court

An analysis of the declaration, the policies and actions it has produced, and how they compare with historical uses of emergency authority.

January 21, 2026

Quick Takes

Federal Court Vacates Wind Energy Authorization Pause

Case represents a win for challenger states, the wind industry, and for those in favor of limitations on presidential power.

December 16, 2025

Legal Analysis

The Endangerment Finding Recission and Implications for State Climate Action

A new analysis looks at the stakes for climate policy nationwide.

December 4, 2025

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The Endangerment Finding and the DOE Climate Science Report

Video: Jody Freeman and other Harvard faculty experts discuss what’s at stake for current and future climate regulation.

October 8, 2025

Legal Analysis

When is Expertise-Based Deference Warranted?

Cuts by the Trump administration have have eroded the deep expertise and institutional knowledge that once defined federal agencies. This analysis offers a framework to asses when agencies are entitled to heightened deference.

October 3, 2025

Legal Analysis

EPA Proposes to End Greenhouse Gas Reporting

A summary of EPA’s proposal to eliminate the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program and a look at the potential impacts to federal, state, and industry efforts.

September 30, 2025

Legal Analysis

Mapping Agency Authority in Environmental Law Post-Loper Bright

A survey of nine environmental and natural resources statutes and catalogue of each instance to a federal agency. Our research identified extensive delegation granting agencies discretion throughout the statutes surveyed, which, under Loper Bright, courts should review using the deferential arbitrary and capricious standard.

September 15, 2025