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Last year, the United States sued the State of Michigan, seeking a preemptive court order preventing Michigan from filing suit against firms in the “fossil fuel industry”.  Michigan moved to dismiss, arguing that the case was not ripe and that the United States did not have standing.  What follows is from the first paragraph of the


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Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration plans to stop assigning dollar values to the human health benefits resulting from the imposition of national ambient air quality standards.  According to the Times, ...


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I think that any honest practitioner of administrative law would acknowledge that judicial deference in review of decisions under the Administrative Procedure Act has historically been a flexible concept. Judges inclined to support agency decisionmaking would point to the deference given to agency decisions under the APA, while judges unsympathetic to the agency position would p...


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The House of Representatives has passed the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act (the “SPEED Act,” H.R. 4776), which now moves to the Senate. If enacted, the SPEED Act would consolidate front end agency discretion, set firm deadl...


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As we previously reported, Maine recently enacted changes to its Net Energy Billing (“NEB”) program. Those changes, in part, reduce compensation for existing commercial and industrial NEB progr...


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