Tariffs on U.S. produced goods are already disproportionately targeting right-leaning communities. Republican lawmakers may add to the price disruption by repealing the Inflation Reduction Act. This blog examines the political calculations currently facing Congressional Republicans as they try to undo Biden’s climate change legacy.
The Trump Administration invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to create its new tariff regime. This new trade policy disrupts the clean energy transition and shows how the trade deficit, not climate change, will be treated as an emergency.
Leaf-blowers are a staple of neighborhoods, cities, and many public spaces, especially in the fall and spring. However, their environmental effects are now coming under the scrutiny of neighborhood groups and local lawmakers, but not without some blowback.
Hedge fund activism increasingly influences corporate environmental and social (E&S) policies. In this GELR blog post, Sehtab Ahmad sharply articulates that lasting, effective E&S governance requires consistent leadership from corporate boards, rather than pressure from activist investors and proxy advisors.
EPA cancels more than 400 grants across nine programs, eliminating $1.7 billion that was dedicated to air and water quality improvement and extreme weather resilience.
Citizen suits have been a powerful engine of environmental enforcement for over half a century. As the bounds of executive power are reimagined, challenges under Article II of the Constitution threaten their viability.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency’s intention to reconsider 31 regulations for the purpose of revitalizing the American economy and auto-industry, arguably neglecting the EPA’s environmental protection mission.
The Supreme Court ruled that the EPA exceeded its authority under the Clean Water Act by imposing broad “end-result” permit requirements, marking a significant post-Chevron shift in environmental law.
The Supreme Court has assumed the mantle of “expert” decisionmaker—contravening the meaning and intention of the Clean Water Act, overruling decades of precedent, and limiting EPA’s ability to carry out their congressionally assigned and executive-directed duties.
The District’s failure to recycle beverage containers is an ongoing issue. But a recently proposed bottle-deposit bill promises to upend residents’ relationship to waste.
