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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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.”
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When Our Forests Are Gone
States must understand how actions happening outside of their borders might impact the environment and health of their own residents.
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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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State AGs' Advocacy for a Cleaner, Fairer, Healthier Energy System
COVID-19 magnifies the importance of state AGs’ advocacy for a cleaner, fairer, healthier energy system.
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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.
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Juneteenth & the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
This moment in time — as communities take to the streets in protest in the midst of a pandemic — should be the time that government officials take stock of their decision-making processes and demonstrate that they are listening.