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Blog
Full Court Press
Over the past four years, state attorneys general have successfully executed the legal equivalent of a full court press against the Trump administration’s assault on our nation’s climate, clean energy and environmental laws.
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Articles
Preparing for Climate Disasters
With new funding to reduce risks before calamity strikes, the Biden administration has an opportunity to ensure that state and local governments have the resources and capacities needed for effective mitigation projects that will meet multiple community needs.
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Reports
Full Court Press: How State AGs Guarded Against the Trump Administration's Anti-Regulatory Agenda
This report highlights actions taken by state attorneys general to defend against the Trump administration’s anti-regulatory assault and build a cleaner, healthier, more just world for future generations.
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Blog
Cl**n En*rgy: A Dirty Word, Apparently
The Trump administration has been quietly sabotaging clean energy initiatives for nearly four years. But its utter disregard for climate change, its related disdain for clean energy, and its heavy hand favoring fossil fuels, are now out in plain sight.
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A Timely Teach-In
Next Wednesday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is holding a virtual “teach-in” that will address how regulated power markets are slowing, and making more expensive, the state’s transition to clean energy.
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Introducing the Midnight Watch Project
With fewer than 80 days separating the election from a new president’s inauguration, there is precious little time to prepare a new team to begin governing.
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Health and Environmental Horrors
In this Halloween edition of “Legally Spooking,” it seems appropriate to address those big, scary health and environmental disasters that strike once or twice in a generation.
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Compliance? Optional
While recent examples confirm that federal enforcement of our environmental laws has reached new lows, the administration’s pernicious, wide-ranging attack on the culture of environmental compliance that our nation built up over the past fifty years is of even greater concern.
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A Weak Hand: ACE Rule's Day in Court
Next week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments on challenges to the repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP) and consider the Trump administration’s replacement, the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule.
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Blog
It's Not NEPA, It's You
The Trump administration recently finalized a destructive overhaul of National Environmental Policy Act regulations that would exempt many projects from environmental reviews and restrict how courts can enforce the law, among other consequences.
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'Tired of Winning' Yet?
Last week, the Trump administration suffered two more major losses on important energy and climate issues, identifying a litany of legal errors in a regulatory rollback and rejecting an attack on states’ energy rights.
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Pipeline Platitudes
The recently canceled or delayed Atlantic Coast, Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines all had fatal flaws, borne largely from poor decisions made by their sponsors, despite what the oil industry claims.
Insights by David J. Hayes (Past Executive Director)
David J. Hayes was the State Impact Center’s executive director from August 2017 through January 2021, when he left the Center to serve in the Biden administration as Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy, a role he filled until late 2022.