CleanLaw

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for the New York Times Eric Lipton speaks with Climate, Clean Air, & Energy Fellow Caitlin McCoy about his 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. See the special report here https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/26/us/politics/donald-trump-environmental-regulation.html

Full transcript available here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CleanLaw-11-Caitlin-Lipton-NYT-degreg-coverage.pdf

Our Climate, Clean Air, & Energy Fellow Caitlin McCoy speaks with Sarah Winner, Staff Attorney of the Center for Coalfield Justice and Interim Executive Director of the Three Rivers Waterkeeper, about the proposed Clean Water Act rule on the revised definition of “Waters of the United States” and the potential implications of the new rule for stream and wetland protection.

Full transcript available here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CleanLaw-10-Caitlin-Winner-WOTUS.pdf

Staff Attorney Hana Vizcarra speaks with our Executive Director Joe Goffman about the environmental legacy of George H. W. Bush. Joe shares his unique insider’s view as he reflects on one of the greatest contributions any president has made to public health and the environment.

Full transcript available here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CleanLaw-9-Hana-Joe-George-Bush.pdf

Our Electricity Law Initiative Director Ari Peskoe interviews Jesse Jenkins, a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Ari and Jesse discuss fundamental principles of electricity market design and whether these principles will continue to apply to a low-carbon grid with high levels of wind and solar. Visit our website at https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/

Full transcript available here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CleanLaw-8-Ari-Jesse-Jenkins-Renewables-and-Electricy-Mkts.pdf

Our Electricity Law Initiative Director Ari Peskoe interviews Phil Sharp - former Indiana Representative and chairman of the Energy and Power Subcommittee, director of the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, and President of Resources for the Future. Ari and Phil discuss the history of PURPA and its implications for climate change legislation. Thank you to the Harvard University Center for the Environment for helping with this podcast. Visit our website at https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/

Full transcript available here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CleanLaw-7-Ari-Phil-Sharp-PURPA-40th.pdf

Joe Goffman, talks with Cynthia Giles, former Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance for the entire Obama Presidency. Cynthia and Joe talk about the Trump EPA’s enforcement policies, including a recent initiative focusing on the oil and gas industry, and the impact they have on air quality and public health. This builds on our EPA Mission Tracker work, available at https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/archive-trump-i-epa-mission-tracker/.

Full transcript available here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CleanLaw-6-Joe-Cynthia-EPA-rollbacks.pdf

Our staff attorney Hana Vizcarra speaks with Electricity Law Initiative Director Ari Peskoe about FERC natural gas facility permitting. In July, 2018 ELI filed comments with FERC arguing that accounting for the economic risks and environmental harms of greenhouse gas emissions in a permitting proceeding is consistent with judicial precedent and Commission practice.

Full transcript available here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CleanLaw-5-Hana-Ari-FERC-gas-comments.pdf

Our executive director Joe Goffman interviewed Dr. Francesca Dominici recently to talk about public health, pollution, and science. Dominici is Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Co-Director of the Data Science Initiative at Harvard University. Listen below, or scroll down to read key points from our interview on rollbacks and public health, new science on air pollution exposure, and the recent Trump administration proposal to suppress public health studies.

Full transcript available here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CleanLaw-4-Joe-Dominici-public-health-data-clean-air.pdf

We speak with Janet McCabe, former Acting Assistant Administrator for the EPA Office of Air and Radiation and current Assistant Director for Policy and Implementation at Indiana University’s Environmental Resilience Institute and a Senior Law Fellow at the Environmental Law and Policy Center. See here for key points from the interview https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/subverting-the-process-of-setting-health-based-air-quality-standards-eelp-interviews-janet-mccabe/

Harvard Law School's Environmental & Energy Law Program Executive Director Joe Goffman interviews Electricity Initiative Director Ari Peskoe about the DOE memo leaked in May, 2018. The memo discusses a "Strategic Electric Generation Reserve" and tactics to support uneconomic coal and nuclear plants.

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Full transcript available here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CleanLaw-2-Joe-Ari-leaked-DOE-memo.pdf