Why i worry about UARG

Harvard Environmental Law Review

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 9-22

  Freeman, Jody ^a  

^a HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE GAS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84983407465     PISSN: 01478257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Cecilia Segal, Climate Regulation Under the Clean Air Act in the Wake of Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA: Introduction, 39 HARV. ENVTL. L. REV. 1, 5-6 (2015)
2. When the decision was pending, I argued that this mixed outcome would be the best result for EPA, and noted that the government had signaled as much in its merits brief. See Jody Freeman, Symposium: Soft Landings and Strategic Choices, SCOTUSBLOG (Feb. 5, 2014), http://perma.cc/87TL-4ECG
3. See, e.g., Adam Liptak, Justices Uphold Emission Limits on Big Industry, N.Y. TIMES (June 23, 2014), http://perma.cc/3GJX-DYB7
4. See, e.g., Juliet Eilperin & Steven Mufson, EPA is Readying Climate Rule for Existing Power Plants as Deadline Approaches, WASH. POST (May 21, 2014), http://perma.cc/R3UT-9R2T; Coral Davenport, President Said to be Planning to Use Executive Authority on Carbon Rule, N.Y. TIMES (May 28, 2014), http://perma.cc/8B6G-TJ54
5. See generally EPA, GOAL COMPUTATION TECH. SUPPORT DOC. (2014), http://perma.cc/C7VFN4WR
6. That the Court would arrive at this outcome was not obvious at the outset. In Massachusetts, unlike in Brown & Williamson, both the major questions canon and Chevron deference appeared to pull in the same direction-against the finding that the CAA covered GHGs. See Jody Freeman & Adrian Vermeule, Massachusetts v. EPA: From Politics to Expertise, 2007 SUP. CT. REV. 51, 76 (2007). The Court made short work of both, finding that the CAA was clear on its face. Massachusetts, 549 U.S. at 531
7. Reducing Acid Rain, EPA, http://perma.cc/WJ3N-KYMQ
8. See Paul L. Joskow & Richard Schmalansee, The Political Economy of Market-Based Environmental Policy: The U.S. Acid Rain Program, 41 J.L. & ECON. 37, 49-55 (1998) (referring to Senate negotiations over allocating emission allowances in the acid rain bill)
9. Acid Rain Program, EPA, http://perma.cc/4JE5-LL5F