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Jody Freeman
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Did lawmakers know role of fossil fuels in climate change during Clean Air Act era?
September 11, 2024
According to a new paper by a team of science historians, more was known at mid-20th century about the dangers of human-caused climate change.
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3 issues to watch with the big US bet on ‘clean’ hydrogen
August 2, 2024
The Biden administration’s push to build a “clean” hydrogen industry is entering a critical phase, as multiple federal agencies ready plans in the coming months…
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What Trump 2.0 Could Mean for the Environment
July 16, 2024
As president, Donald Trump’s sweeping attempts to roll back federal environmental regulations were often stymied — by the courts, by a lack of experience, even…
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Trump Now Has ‘Carte Blanche to Do Unspeakable Things’
July 12, 2024
The combination of recent Supreme Court rulings on presidential power and the Democratic Party’s nomination crisis in the wake of Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance…
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NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with law professor Jody Freeman about what the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Chevron case means for how federal agencies can…
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The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the 40-year-old legal principle known as the Chevron doctrine, which required courts to defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of…
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What it means for the Supreme Court to throw out Chevron decision, undercutting federal regulators
July 1, 2024
Executive branch agencies will likely have more difficulty regulating the environment, public health, workplace safety and other issues under a far-reaching decision by the Supreme…
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Supreme Court overturns Chevron decision, curbing federal regulators. Here’s what it means
July 1, 2024
Executive branch agencies will likely have more difficulty regulating the environment, public health, workplace safety and other issues under a far-reaching decision by the Supreme…
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Chevron’s climate test
June 26, 2024
Buckle up for a major Supreme Court decision this week that could curtail the power of federal agencies to set policy on a range of…
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During a discussion led by Harvard Law School Professors Richard Lazarus and Jody Freeman, a panel of legal and government experts addressed the prospects for U.S. climate law over the next five years.
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The US supreme court is poised to decide the fate of a decades-old legal framework that has helped determine how the federal government regulates everything…
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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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A gift by alumnus Dan Emmett ’64 and the Emmett Foundation will bolster the work of the law school’s Environmental Law and Policy Clinic and Environmental and Energy Law Program.
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The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalized an ambitious set of rules aimed at slashing air pollution, water pollution and planet-warming emissions spewing from the…
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President Biden’s climate ambitions are colliding with political and legal realities, forcing his administration to recalibrate two of its main tools to cut the emissions…
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Supreme Court herring fishermen case ‘about power’: Law professor
January 22, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that could eliminate a fee requirement for commercial fishermen, an important case that could limit a wide…
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Will the Supreme Court Show a Little Humility?
January 19, 2024
An op-ed by Jody Freeman and Andrew Mergen: The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in two cases inviting the justices to drastically restrict the…
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The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in a set of cases that could pave the way for its conservative supermajority to undercut how American…