CleanLaw

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 https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CleanLaw-41-Caitlin-and-Bethany-vehicle-emissions-fuel-efficiency-rollbacks.pdf

In this episode Alex Griswold, a research associate at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, interviews Professor Jody Freeman, our founding director and also an independent director of ConocoPhillips. 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.

Transcript https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CleanLaw-40-Jody-Alex-rollbacks-and-optimism_.pdf

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.

Transcript https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/39-Goffman-Lazarus-Transcript.pdf

For a transcript of this episode see here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/38-Goffman-Bloomer-Transcript.pdf

EELP Fellow Laura Bloomer speaks with our Executive Director Joe Goffman about how the Trump Administration is using regulatory rollbacks to advance new interpretations of the Clean Air Act that restrict EPA’s authority to address climate change and threaten the agency’s long-term ability to deliver needed reductions in air pollution.

Laura and Joe analyze four rulemakings: (1) the repeal of the Clean Power Plan and its replacement with the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, (2) the revocation of California’s preemption waiver for its greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions standards and its Zero Emissions Vehicle program, (3) the proposed withdrawal and replacement of the “appropriate and necessary” finding that underpins the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards, and (4) the proposed rescission of methane regulations for the oil and natural gas sector.

See here for links to the individual rules https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/cleanlaw-restricting-epas-authority-joe-goffman-and-laura-bloomer-talk-clean-air-act-rollbacks/

Transcript of this episode https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Hana-and-Alice-Hill-Transcript-Final-1.pdf

Hana Vizcarra talks with Alice Hill, senior fellow for climate change policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. A former judge and federal prosecutor, Judge Hill served as a special assistant to President Barack Obama and senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council.

They discuss her new book with Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, Building a Resilient Tomorrow, and her experience developing policy on national security and climate change and incorporating climate resilience considerations into federal decisionmaking.

Her book https://www.alicehillresilience.com/

Transcript of this episode here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Ari-and-Joe-FERC-Transcript-Final-1.pdf

In this episode our executive director Joe Goffman interviews Electricity Law Initiative director Ari Peskoe about the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's December, 2019 order on PJM’s capacity auction.

Ari's recent op-ed on this rule https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Ari-and-Joe-FERC-Transcript-Final-1.pdf

For a full transcript of this episode click here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/Ari-and-Jason-Burwen-Transcript-Final.pdf

Ari Peskoe talks with Jason Burwen, vice president for policy at the US Energy Storage Association. They discuss new electricity market rules that aim to pay storage resources for the value they provide to our energy system.

https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2020/01/cleanlaw-ari-peskoe-with-jason-burwen-on-electricity-markets-and-storage/

See here for a transcript of this episode. http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/Alex-Barron-and-Joe-Transcription.pdf

Our executive director Joe Goffman speaks with Smith College Professor of Environmental Science and Policy Alex Barron. Alex is a former senior official in EPA’s policy office and discusses his work with economists and other experts to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the economic models we use to analyze carbon pricing policies. See more about this episode and Alex's work here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2020/01/cleanlaw-joe-goffman-and-alex-barron-on-carbon-pricing-models/

For a full transcript of this recording please click here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/Samantha-Ross-and-Hana-Transcript.pdf

In this episode our staff attorney Hana Vizcarra talks with Samantha Ross, former Chief of Staff and Special Counsel at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and former Special Counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission. They discuss the importance of assurance in strengthening public company sustainability and climate disclosures.

https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/

In this episode our EELP Legal Fellow Laura Bloomer speaks with Gretchen Goldman, Research Director for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, about the Trump administration’s changes to EPA’s process for reviewing the national ambient air quality standards, or NAAQS. They discuss the importance of revising these standards to keep pace with current science, and the many ways in which Trump’s EPA is undermining the ongoing reviews of air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter.

Transcript https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Laura-and-Gretchen-for-Publishing.pdf