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In Paradise Lost, John Milton wrote that "easy is the descent into Hell, for it is paved with good intentions."

A discussion on why it has not been a good run for plaintiffs in private climate change litigation.

I have previously blogged about how strange our politics has become, when cap-and-trade programs, previously touted by conservatives and viewed skeptically by environmentalists as a "license to pollute," somehow become for conservatives the poster child of big government programs.

Having gotten the Clean Power Plan out the door, EPA has moved on to another target of President Obama's Climate Action Plan: landfill methane emissions.

On Tuesday, the Boston Globe joined most local environmental organizations in opposing delegation of the NPDES program to Massachusetts. How wrong is this? Let me count the ways.

On March 19, 2015, the White House issued an executive order directing federal agencies to reduce their direct greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent from 2008 levels by 2025.

On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (the EO), "Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements."

As the construction industry prepares to reopen, contractors are making detailed plans to comply with state and municipal safety requirements related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

On January 29, 2025, the Senate voted to confirm former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin as EPA Administrator. Zeldin is a 44-year-old attorney who represented New York's 1st...

Since I already violated my rule against speculating on the outcome of a case based on oral argument, I might as well do it again. I have always said that EPA’s endangerment finding would survive judicial review and that conclusion seems only more likely to prove correct following yesterday’s oral argument before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

With the new year upon us, much speculation is focused on the course of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) regulation in the United States. Mid-term election results shifted power to the Republican Party and created an expectation that GHG regulation would slow down.

When the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative was first implemented, there were questions regarding how much of an impact it would actually have on GHG emissions.

For the past several months, the Senate Environment and Public Works ("EPW") Committee has been reviewing recommendations on how to overhaul the Superfund process as set forth in the Comprehensive Environmental Response...

On October 15, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the EPA’s implementation of greenhouse gas regulations under the Clean Air Act.

Taking what many are calling an unprecedented step, the Supreme Court yesterday, in a 5-4 "party line" vote, granted a stay of the EPA's Clean Power Plan, halting the compliance requirements of the rule pending judicial review.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a long-anticipated ruling on June 30, 2022, regarding the authority of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and...

An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (login required) has documented the devastating impact caused by the use of leaded gasoline.

New EU legislation is about to be adopted which will require pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies to pay water pollution costs. More specifically, it will oblige those companies to pay for the clean-up...