We regularly produce original research and analysis that highlight attorney general work on clean energy and the environment and provide commentary on important and timely topics in these areas of work.
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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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Projects
The Health & Environmental Settlements Project
The Health & Environmental Settlements Project evaluates mechanisms that have been used by state AGs, Congress, and others to address the toughest large-scale health and environmental liability and compensation challenges over the last 50 years.
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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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Musical Chairs at FERC
Here is a quick set of questions and answers about what the recent naming of James Danly as Chairman of FERCmeans at this once-lesser-known federal agency.
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Another Swing for Demand Response at FERC
A short explainer about the participation of demand response resources in wholesale electricity markets, given that FERC is being asked to reconsider whether state authorities can prevent these resources from playing in the wholesale market.
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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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FERC’s Distributed Energy Resource Rule Explained
An explainer on FERC’s Distributed Energy Resources rule, Order No. 2222, an important step in allowing for and promoting the participation of a diverse set of clean energy resources in wholesale markets.
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Projects
Climate Change and Public Health
Climate change has many adverse health consequences, and if robust climate action is not taken, these health impacts are expected to worsen, resulting in tens of thousands of additional people sick and lives lost, with disadvantaged communities hurt most of all. Thankfully, state attorneys general have stepped in to challenge the rollback of climate regulations and fight to protect human health and the environment from the ravages of climate change.
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Op-Eds
Big changes may be ahead for natural gas pipelines, if FERC does its job
“The day of reckoning for new natural gas infrastructure is long overdue. As states and consumers turn towards cleaner sources of energy, we must ask what the place is for new pipelines.”