In this episode our executive director Joe Goffman interviews climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Texas Tech Climate Center and Professor in Public Policy and Public Law in the Department of Political Science. Professor Hayhoe talks about the cutting edge science of climate change attribution, how she tries to help the public understand the reality of climate change by making it local, how best to assess and report the impacts of it, and why she is hopeful. Click here for a full transcript of this episode http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-53.pdf

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Ep 53 - Climate Science, Communication, and Hope: Katharine Hayhoe and Joe Goffman

In this episode, our Electricity Law Initiative director Ari Peskoe speaks with Matto Mildenberger, assistant professor of political science at the UC Santa Barbara, about the politics of carbon pricing. Note - we recorded this episode in late October, prior to the presidential election. This is a link to the article they discuss http://bostonreview.net/science-nature-politics/matto-mildenberger-leah-c-stokes-trouble-carbon-pricing You can find a full transcript of this episode here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-52-Ari-and-Matto-on-Carbon-Pricing.pdf

Ep 52 - Carbon Pricing with Matto Mildenberger and Ari Peskoe

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 her ongoing work examining how well environmental rules do in ensuring compliance with pollution and waste reduction requirements, where they fail, and how to make sure they succeed. Cynthia’s third installment of her series on Next Generation Compliance is now up on our website https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2020/09/next-generation-compliance-environmental-regulation-for-the-modern-era/ You can find a full transcript of this episode here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-51-Joe-and-Cynthia-Next-Gen-Compliance-3.pdf

Ep 51 - Next Generation Environmental Regulations, Joe Goffman interviews Cynthia Giles

In our 50th episode of CleanLaw, Erin Brockovich speaks with Caitlin McCoy about some of the major water issues in the U.S. today and what people can do to work toward better water quality in their communities and beyond. Their conversation covers community science, tips for effective advocacy, legacy water pollution issues, and the problems with current laws and regulations. Erin shares an inspiring message that we all have the power to demand better drinking water and smarter approaches to regulation. You can read more in Erin's new book, Superman's Not Coming. Click here for a transcript of this episode. http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-50-Caitlin-and-Erin-Brockovich-Supermans-Not-Coming.pdf

Episode 50: Erin Brockovich and Caitlin McCoy Talk about Citizen Advocacy and US Water Regulations

Robin Just interviews our former EELP Fellow Laura Bloomer about changes in the Department of the Interior under the Trump administration. Laura interviewed dozens of former DOI career staff, former political appointees, and natural resources and American Indian law experts and distills their insights in our newest white paper - link below. She breaks down how these changes have been implemented, and makes recommendations for a new administration to repair the damage. https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2020/10/managing-public-lands-under-the-trump-administration-and-beyond/

Episode 49: The Department of the Interior Rollbacks under Trump with Laura Bloomer and Robin Just

In this episode Caitlin McCoy talks with Aladdine Joroff, clinical instructor and staff attorney at our Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, about the recent decision by the Massachusetts Attorney General disapproving Brookline, MA’s law seeking to limit the use of natural gas in buildings, and comments the Clinic submitted on behalf of Mothers Out Front Massachusetts, arguing that Brookline’s law is a traditional exercise of municipal authority and could co-exist with state law. See here for a transcript of this episode http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-48-Caitlin-Aladdine-Brookline-Gas-AD-Decision.pdf You can find the links to the AG's decision and the Clinics comments, as well as a link to Caitlin’s recent white paper, The Legal Dynamics of Local Limits on Natural Gas Use in Buildings, here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2020/09/cleanlaw-caitlin-mccoy-and-aladdine-joroff-on-recent-mass-ag-decision-on-local-natural-gas-usage-laws/

Episode 48: Caitlin and Aladdine Joroff on the MA AG's Decision on Local Natural Gas Usage Laws

"The progress is uneven. We are not cleaning the air in an even way for everybody." In this episode our executive director Joe Goffman speaks with Francesca Dominici, Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Co-Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative. They discuss her team’s state-of-the-art science that shows air pollution continues to be a public health threat and, links air pollution with increased coronavirus death rates. They also discuss her team’s recent study revealing that even as air quality improved overall between 2010 and 2016, it did not improve in Black communities. Transcript of this episode here: http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-47-Joe-and-Francesca-COVID.pdf

Episode 47: Joe Goffman & Francesca Dominici on Air Quality, Covid-19, and Black Communities

In this episode Joe Goffman speaks with Sam Ricketts, senior fellow for Energy and Environment at the Center for American Progress and former climate director for the presidential campaign of Govrnor Jay Inslee. He now also serves as a co-founder of Evergreen, an organization created by Inslee campaign alumni to continue to deploy the policy, communications, and organizing tools of a political campaign in service to the climate movement. They discuss Sam’s experience developing comprehensive climate change policy proposals, how he and his colleagues thought through the problems those they had to address, and how to think about the climate change policy proposals recently unveiled in the U.S. House of Representatives and by the Biden campaign. Full transcript here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-46-Joe-Sam-Climate-Change-Policies.pdf

Episode 46: Joe Goffman and Sam Ricketts on Climate Change Policy Proposals

Hana Vizcarra speaks with Kevin McClean, 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. Transcript here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-45-Hana-and-Kevin-McLean-TSCA-Lautenberg.pdf Kevin's paper on TSCA after the Lautenberg Act here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2020/02/three-years-after-where-does-implementation-of-the-lautenberg-act-stand/ eelp.law.harvard.edu

Episode 45: Hana Vizcarra and Kevin McClean on the Toxic Substances Control Act Revisions

Recorded on May 7, Joe Goffman speaks with Cynthia Giles, former Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, about EPA’s rollback of environmental enforcement in a COVID-19 enforcement discretion policy issued at the end of March 2020. This issue is still playing out: three lawsuits are pending about the March enforcement policy, and EPA has given some additional guidance on the subject. Transcript here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-44-Joe-and-Cynthia-on-EPA-Covid-19-enforcement-discretion.pdf More from Cynthia Giles here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2020/01/next-generation-compliance-environmental-regulation-for-the-modern-era/ and here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2018/11/podcast-with-cynthia-giles-epa-enforcement-of-oil-gas/

Episode 44: Joe Goffman Speaks with Cynthia Giles about EPA's Enforcement Problems During COVID-19

In this episode Ari Peskoe speaks with Leah Stokes, Professor of Political Science at UC Santa Barbara about state clean energy policies. Transcript here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-43-Ari-and-Leah-Stokes-on-Interest-Groups-and-Utilities.pdf https://www.leahstokes.com/ https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/

Episode 43: Ari Peskoe speaks with Leah Stokes about State Clean Energy Policies

For a transcript of this episode see here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/Transcript-of-Ari-Pesko-on-FERC-filing-6-10-20.pdf In this episode, Ari Peskoe, Director of our Electricity Law Initiative, describes a petition filed at FERC by a group calling itself the New England Ratepayers Association requesting that FERC find state-regulated net metering arrangements violate federal law and are therefore invalid. If FERC were to grant NERA’s petition, utilities across the country would likely press state regulators to change the rules that have facilitated recent dramatic growth in rooftop solar. We made this recording at a press event on June 10th, and these were Ari’s opening remarks. Read more, including our comment to FERC here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2020/06/electricity-law-initiative-files-comment-in-opposition-to-net-metering-petition/

Episode 42: Ari Peskoe talks about Attacks on Net Metering for Rooftop Solar

Caitlin McCoy is joined by Bethany Davis Noll, Litigation Director at the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University Law School. They discuss the recently-finalized Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient Vehicles Rule, which weakens fuel economy and GHG standards for cars and light trucks. They share some insights into the rule and how it could be challenged. A transcript of this episode is available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-41-Caitlin-and-Bethany-vehicle-emissions-fuel-efficiency-rollbacks.pdf

Caitlin McCoy and Bethany Davis Noll Discuss Cost-Benefit Issues in the Clean Cars Rollback

In this episode Alex Griswold, a research associate at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, interviews Professor Jody Freeman, our founding director. They talk about the Trump era environmental rollbacks that are most troubling to Jody, and why she is still optimistic that we can do better. Full transcript of this episode available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-40-Jody-Alex-rollbacks-and-optimism.pdf

Episode 40: Jody Freeman and Alex Griswold on Trump Environmental Rollbacks and Optimism

Joe Goffman interviews Harvard Law Professor Richard Lazarus about his new book, "The Rule of Five," which describes the drama, strategy, cast of characters, and, above all, the lawyering, by both the litigators and the Justices, that led to the seminal Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA. Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/39-Goffman-Lazarus-Transcript.pdf https://eelp.law.harvard.edu

Episode 39: MA v EPA - Richard Lazarus Talks to Joe Goffman About His New Book “The Rule of Five"

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