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Carrie Jenks
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Harvard Law’s Jody Freeman, Richard Lazarus, Andrew Mergen, and Carrie Jenks discuss the impact alumnus Dan Emmett’s $15 million gift to establish the Emmett Environmental Law Center will have for students, faculty, staff, and environmental law practitioners nationwide.
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The fight over new CO2 limits for power plants is coalescing around a debate over carbon capture, with the US Environmental Protection Agency defending the…
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How EPA could change the power plant rule’s ‘finer details’
March 18, 2024
EPA may change more in its upcoming power plant rule than last month’s headline-grabbing decision to exclude natural gas plants. The rule, which will set…
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EPA rule tees up legal battle over federal climate authority
March 11, 2024
EPA’s rule to limit methane emissions from the oil and gas sector may be the latest battleground over whether the agency is exceeding its authority…
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The global crackdown on methane emissions will get a boost this week from a watchdog satellite built to track and publicly reveal the biggest methane…
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Power-Sector Pollution Targeted by New Regulations from the US Environmental Protection Agency
January 12, 2024
This spring, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced three regulations that affect the US power sector. All three would fulfill directives in the…
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Biden admin to finalize most climate rules in early 2024
January 8, 2024
The first four months of 2024 is go time for EPA climate rules. The agency has already finalized parts of the Biden administration’s ambitious first-term…
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EPA Methane Rule Likely to Face Legal Challenges Despite Being ‘Conventional’ Rule
December 13, 2023
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation aimed at significantly curtailing methane emissions over the next 15 years is likely to face legal challenges, environmental law…
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U.S. finalizes ambitious rule to slash methane emissions
December 5, 2023
The Biden administration has recently finalized a rule aimed at drastically reducing methane emissions from the US oil and gas industry. This ambitious initiative seeks…
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US announces rule to slash powerful planet-warming methane by nearly 80% from oil and gas
December 4, 2023
The Biden administration has finalized a rule to significantly cut the US oil and gas industry’s emissions of methane, a powerful planet-warming gas that scientists…
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Reliability v. sustainability: Inside the debate over the EPA’s proposed carbon rules
November 27, 2023
Electric reliability has been a hot topic lately — from congressional hearings to regulatory agencies and at the regional transmission organizations that run the electric…
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Parties Preview FERC Review of EPA Power Plant Rule
November 13, 2023
FERC will host a discussion Thursday on the potential impacts of EPA’s proposed rule for power plant emissions as part of its annual technical conference…
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EPA smog plan takes hold — with a big asterisk
August 7, 2023
A high-stakes EPA bid to tackle the nation’s smog problem anew took effect Friday. Sort of. Boxed in by a string of court losses, agency…
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Federal courts will spend the last half of the year weighing the fate of some of the Biden administration’s biggest climate and energy goals. Much…
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Companies that do advanced methane detection for clients in the oil and gas industry are worried that EPA’s upcoming methane rule could stifle their emerging…
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White House pressed EPA to toughen power plant rule
May 17, 2023
EPA strengthened its climate rule on power plants after White House officials pressed the agency to expand the proposal before it was released last week.
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EPA proposes new rules that would dramatically slash planet-warming pollution from power plants
May 11, 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday will propose one of its most highly anticipated climate rules to date, compelling nearly all US power plants that…
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President Biden’s administration is poised to announce limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that could compel them to capture the pollution from their…