Podcast appearances and mentions of joe goffman

Joe Goffman, Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Chuck Knauss, former lead Republican Counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Committee during the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, about the Office of Air and Radiation's recent accomplishments and its priorities for the coming year.

WMAL GUEST: 8:05 AM - INTERVIEW - STEVE MILLOY - Founder of Junk Science and author of Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA Biden to name John Podesta as climate envoy to replace John Kerry, White House confirms  Steve Milloy on social media about Podesta Food shortages in Europe Senate confirms Biden nominee to lead EPA's climate and clean air office Biden's new radical EPA official Joe Goffman confirmed  Where to find more about WMAL's morning show:  Follow the Show Podcasts on Apple podcasts, Audible and Spotify. Follow WMAL's "O'Connor and Company" on X: @WMALDC, @LarryOConnor,  @Jgunlock,  @patricepinkfile and @heatherhunterdc.  Facebook: WMALDC and Larry O'Connor Instagram: WMALDC Show Website: https://www.wmal.com/oconnor-company/ How to listen live weekdays from 5 to 9 AM: https://www.wmal.com/listenlive/ Episode: Friday, February 2, 2024 / 8 AM Hour  O'Connor and Company is proudly presented by Veritas AcademySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the 8 AM Hour: Larry O'Connor and Patrice Onwuka discussed: WMAL GUEST: 8:05 AM - INTERVIEW - STEVE MILLOY - Founder of Junk Science and author of Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA Biden to name John Podesta as climate envoy to replace John Kerry, White House confirms  Steve Milloy on social media about Podesta Food shortages in Europe Senate confirms Biden nominee to lead EPA's climate and clean air office Biden's new radical EPA official Joe Goffman confirmed  Dem lawmakers want to solve carjacking by slapping carmakers with penalties; refuse to increase penalties for criminals or say what criminal motives are Commanders to hire Cowboys DC Dan Quinn as new head coach, per reports Groundhog Day 2024: Punxsutawney Phil makes his prediction When Groundhog Was on the Menu in Punxsutawney Just as hundreds in Pennsylvania gather for one of the nation's largest annual Groundhog Day events with Punxsutawney Phil, the nation's capital has Potomac Phil to make predictions in Dupont Circle. Where to find more about WMAL's morning show:  Follow the Show Podcasts on Apple podcasts, Audible and Spotify. Follow WMAL's "O'Connor and Company" on X: @WMALDC, @LarryOConnor,  @Jgunlock,  @patricepinkfile and @heatherhunterdc.  Facebook: WMALDC and Larry O'Connor Instagram: WMALDC Show Website: https://www.wmal.com/oconnor-company/ How to listen live weekdays from 5 to 9 AM: https://www.wmal.com/listenlive/ Episode: Friday, February 2, 2024 / 8 AM Hour  O'Connor and Company is proudly presented by Veritas AcademySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode our executive director Joe Goffman interviews climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Texas Tech Climate Center and Professor in Public Policy and Public Law in the Department of Political Science. Professor Hayhoe talks about the cutting edge science of climate change attribution, how she tries to help the public understand the reality of climate change by making it local, how best to assess and report the impacts of it, and why she is hopeful. Click here for a full transcript of this episode http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-53.pdf

In this episode, our executive director Joe Goffman speaks again with Cynthia Giles, our guest fellow and former Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. They discuss her ongoing work examining how well environmental rules do in ensuring compliance with pollution and waste reduction requirements, where they fail, and how to make sure they succeed. Cynthia’s third installment of her series on Next Generation Compliance is now up on our website https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2020/09/next-generation-compliance-environmental-regulation-for-the-modern-era/ You can find a full transcript of this episode here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-51-Joe-and-Cynthia-Next-Gen-Compliance-3.pdf

"The progress is uneven. We are not cleaning the air in an even way for everybody." In this episode our executive director Joe Goffman speaks with Francesca Dominici, Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Co-Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative. They discuss her team’s state-of-the-art science that shows air pollution continues to be a public health threat and, links air pollution with increased coronavirus death rates. They also discuss her team’s recent study revealing that even as air quality improved overall between 2010 and 2016, it did not improve in Black communities. Transcript of this episode here: http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-47-Joe-and-Francesca-COVID.pdf

In this episode Joe Goffman speaks with Sam Ricketts, senior fellow for Energy and Environment at the Center for American Progress and former climate director for the presidential campaign of Govrnor Jay Inslee. He now also serves as a co-founder of Evergreen, an organization created by Inslee campaign alumni to continue to deploy the policy, communications, and organizing tools of a political campaign in service to the climate movement. They discuss Sam’s experience developing comprehensive climate change policy proposals, how he and his colleagues thought through the problems those they had to address, and how to think about the climate change policy proposals recently unveiled in the U.S. House of Representatives and by the Biden campaign. Full transcript here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-46-Joe-Sam-Climate-Change-Policies.pdf

Recorded on May 7, Joe Goffman speaks with Cynthia Giles, former Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, about EPA’s rollback of environmental enforcement in a COVID-19 enforcement discretion policy issued at the end of March 2020. This issue is still playing out: three lawsuits are pending about the March enforcement policy, and EPA has given some additional guidance on the subject. On June 29, 2020, EPA announced that it plans to end the COVID-19 enforcement discretion policy on August 31, 2020. Transcript here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-44-Joe-and-Cynthia-on-EPA-Covid-19-enforcement-discretion.pdf More from Cynthia Giles here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2020/01/next-generation-compliance-environmental-regulation-for-the-modern-era/ and here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2018/11/podcast-with-cynthia-giles-epa-enforcement-of-oil-gas/

Joe Goffman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career working on environmental legislation and how the Harvard Environmental and Energy Law program is tracking the rollbacks at EPA.

As early as the 1930s, lakes in the Adirondacks began registering fish loss. By the 1980s, visible forest dieback turned the attention of the United States to the acid rain crisis. Today, scientists are observing the biological recovery of the region. This is the story of how it all happened. In this episode: Joe Goffman, Executive Director of the Harvard Environmental & Energy Law Program Dan Josephson, long-time Cornell University Adirondack Fishery Research Program biologist

Joe Goffman interviews Harvard Law Professor Richard Lazarus about his new book, "The Rule of Five," which describes the drama, strategy, cast of characters, and, above all, the lawyering, by both the litigators and the Justices, that led to the seminal Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA. Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/39-Goffman-Lazarus-Transcript.pdf https://eelp.law.harvard.edu

For a transcript of this episode see here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/38-Goffman-Bloomer-Transcript.pdf EELP Fellow Laura Bloomer speaks with our Executive Director Joe Goffman about how the Trump Administration is using regulatory rollbacks to advance new interpretations of the Clean Air Act that restrict EPA’s authority to address climate change and threaten the agency’s long-term ability to deliver needed reductions in air pollution. Laura and Joe analyze four rulemakings: (1) the repeal of the Clean Power Plan and its replacement with the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, (2) the revocation of California’s preemption waiver for its greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions standards and its Zero Emissions Vehicle program, (3) the proposed withdrawal and replacement of the “appropriate and necessary” finding that underpins the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards, and (4) the proposed rescission of methane regulations for the oil and natural gas sector. See here for links to the individual rules https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2020/03/cleanlaw-restricting-epas-authority-joe-goffman-and-laura-bloomer-talk-clean-air-act-rollbacks/

For a full transcript of this episode click here. http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/Ari-and-Joe-FERC-Transcript-Final.pdf In this episode our executive director Joe Goffman interviews Electricity Law Initiative director Ari Peskoe about the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's December, 2019 order on PJM’s capacity auction. You can see Ari's recent op-ed on this rule and a Twitter thread about Requests for Rehearing of FERC’s December 19 order at the following links https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2020/01/fercs-clean-energy-boycott-distorts-pjm-prices-and-discards-history/ and https://twitter.com/AriPeskoe/status/1220390750686412803

See here for a transcript of this episode. http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/Alex-Barron-and-Joe-Transcription.pdf Our executive director Joe Goffman speaks with Smith College Professor of Environmental Science and Policy Alex Barron. Alex is a former senior official in EPA’s policy office and discusses his work with economists and other experts to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the economic models we use to analyze carbon pricing policies. See more about this episode and Alex's work here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2020/01/cleanlaw-joe-goffman-and-alex-barron-on-carbon-pricing-models/

In this episode, Caitlin and Joe talk about their white paper on the Repeal of the Clean Power Plan and the Affordable Clean Energy Rule. They also discuss the litigation challenging the repeal and new rule, with updates including petitioners’ motion to hold the case in abeyance pending EPA's issuing the final New Source Review rule, which was initially included in the ACE proposal. The other papers and podcast mentioned in this episode are listed on our website here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2019/11/cleanlaw-caitlin-mccoy-and-joe-goffman-on-the-affordable-clean-energy-rule/ Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/Goffman-McCoy-ACE-Transcript.pdf

In this episode Joe speaks with climate economist Gernot Wagner about his latest paper (with co-authors) showing how climate-economic modeling can account not only for predicted damages linked to climate change but also for the uncertainty and risk associated with climate change. Gernot also talks about his work with the late Martin Weitzman, one of the most influential climate and environmental economists who ever lived. See Gernot's paper here https://www.pnas.org/content/116/42/20886 Visit our website here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/ Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-28-Joe-Gernot-Climate-Economics.pdf

In this episode Joe Goffman, our Executive Director, talks with Kathy Fallon Lambert, Senior Advisor with The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Co-founder of the Science Policy Exchange. Kathy was part of a team of researchers who evaluated the Regulatory Impact Analysis for EPA’s Affordable Clean Energy rule, to determine whether it incorporates the best available information and whether its predictions are fully supportable. She and her colleagues also performed their own analysis using EPA data. Using more realistic assumptions than EPA used they found that EPA overstated the likely benefits of ACE and that ACE could lead to increased pollution in several states. Kathy and Joe discuss EPA’s assumptions in the RIA, the impact of EPA’s current and expected changes to New Source Review that EPA failed to account for, and EPA’s inconsistency in calculating the benefits of reducing fine particle concentrations. See the study here https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/news/carbon-standards-re-examined/ and visit our website to learn more here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-27-Joe-Kathy-ACE-MATS.pdf

In this episode our executive director Joe Goffman speaks again with Clean Air Task Force senior counsel Jonathan Lewis about biofuels. They discuss the 5 lessons policy-makers seeking to promote innovation can learn from the failure of the renewable fuel standard as a policy, why aviation is a critical transportation market to target for emissions reductions, and the low carbon fuel standards of California and British Columbia. Jonathan joined us in August for the first of this two part series. See CATF bioenergy work here www.catf.us/work/bioenergy/ and more of our work here eelp.law.harvard.edu Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-26-Joe-Jon-Lewis-biofuels-2.pdf

In this episode Joe Goffman, our Executive Director, talks with our Climate, Clean Air and Energy Fellow Caitlin McCoy about part one of the clean car rule rollback. They discuss EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s final rule, issued on September 19th, that preempts California’s greenhouse gas standards and withdraws California’s Clean Air Act waiver. See all our clean car work here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/corporate-average-fuel-economy-and-ghg-emissions-standards/ Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-25-Joe-Caitlin-Cali-Waiver.pdf

In this episode of CleanLaw Joe Goffman speaks with Clean Air Task Force senior counsel Jonathan Lewis about bioenergy. They discuss the history of biofuel mandates, the challenges of lifecycle analysis, the problems associated with land-use, the difficulty in meeting annual mandates, and talk about what US biofuel policy should really be focused on. At around the 30-minute mark the conversation moves from the transportation sector to power generation. In September we'll publish Part II of this conversation: a deeper discussion on the Renewable Fuel Standard program, and lessons we've learned from this policy. See CATF bioenergy work here https://www.catf.us/work/bioenergy/ and more of our work here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/Joe-and-Jon-Biofuels-1-transcript.pdf

Joe Goffman speaks with Bill Becker, former Executive Director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies. Bill and Mary Becker have just published a report on the Trump proposal to weaken vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards. They describe the effects this proposal will have on public health, state compliance with the Clean Air Act, and industry operations. In addition to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, other harmful emissions will rise, such as smog-forming pollutants, fine particles, and cancer-causing air toxins. The report is on our website here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2019/05/cleanlaw-joe-goffman-interviews-bill-becker-on-vehicle-emissions-standards-rollbacks-and-public-health/ Many thanks to the Harvard University Center for the Environment for their help with this podcast! Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-21-Joe-Bill-Becker-Clean-Cars.pdf

Joe Goffman speaks with Kathy Fallon Lambert of the Harvard School of Public Health about her recent studies, with a team of many other scientists, that highlight overlooked potential public health impacts of EPA’s proposed changes to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards and the Clean Power Plan/Affordable Clean Energy Rule (if you want to go straight to the CPP/ACE discussion go to 27:15). More on this podcast, including a full transcript of this conversation and links to the studies here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2019/03/kathy-fallon-lambert-and-joe-goffman-discuss-mats-and-ace/. Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/Fallon-Lambert-and-Goffman-scrpt.pdf

When we spoke with Kathy Fallon Lambert about the science that should be underpinning the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards and the Clean Power Plan replacement, she told us why scientists should not be afraid to do work that is "usable, useful, and used." So here's a ten-minute crash course on the benefits of policy-relevant science. Enjoy! More Kathy and Joe Goffman's conversation on MATS and CPP/ACE here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2019/03/kathy-fallon-lambert-and-joe-goffman-discuss-mats-and-ace/ Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-14-Joe-and-Kathy-policy-relevant-science.pdf Our website https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/

With Gina McCarthy, Janet McCabe and Joe Goffman led the team that developed the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. Hear them discuss the effects of a new proposal to remove the legal foundation of the rule, and what might happen next. Janet's recent paper on this is here https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2019/02/janet-mccabe-epa-mats-revision/ and our recent analysis of the rollback is here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2018/12/mats-cost-benefit-analysis-and-the-appropriate-and-necessary-finding/ Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-12-Joe-Janet-MATS-rollbacks.pdf

Staff Attorney Hana Vizcarra speaks with our Executive Director Joe Goffman about the environmental legacy of George H. W. Bush. Joe shares his unique insider’s view as he reflects on one of the greatest contributions any president has made to public health and the environment. Read more here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2018/12/what-environmental-protection-owes-george-h-w-bush/ Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-9-Hana-Joe-George-Bush.pdf

Joe Goffman, talks with Cynthia Giles, former Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance for the entire Obama Presidency. Cynthia and Joe talk about the Trump EPA’s enforcement policies, including a recent initiative focusing on the oil and gas industry, and the impact they have on air quality and public health. You can read key points here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2018/11/podcast-with-cynthia-giles-epa-enforcement-of-oil-gas/. This builds on our EPA Mission Tracker work, available at https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/epa-mission-tracker/. Thank you to the Harvard University Center for the Environment for helping with this podcast. Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-6-Joe-Cynthia-EPA-rollbacks.pdf

Can EPA’s Clean Power Plan replacement survive the courts? An architect of the Clean Power Plan weighs in. --- In August the Environmental Protection Agency revealed its replacement for the Clean Power Plan, the Obama-era regulation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power industry. The replacement plan, championed by current EPA acting administrator Andrew Wheeler with backing from President Trump, does away with broad carbon emissions reduction targets for the electricity industry. Instead, the proposed regulation, called the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, or ACE, would require only that existing coal plants become more energy efficient. The result is likely to be modest reductions in carbon emissions, at best, from the electricity sector, while the lives of some coal plants could be extended. Joseph Goffman, a principle architect of the (original) Clean Power Plan during the Obama Administration, weighs in on the litany of legal challenges to ACE that are sure to come, and whether the EPA in fact has the legal latitude to weaken the very carbon dioxide standards that it had deemed essential to limiting climate change, and protecting human health, just a few years ago. Joe also discusses legal challenges facing the EPA’s current, parallel effort to relax automotive emission standards. Joseph Goffman is Executive Director of the Environmental Law Program at Harvard University. From 2009 to 2017, he served as Senior Legal Counsel in the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. Related Content: Not an ACE for Coal: https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/blog/2018/08/22/not-ace-coal Reimagining Pennsylvania’s Coal Communities: https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/paper/reimagining-pennsylvanias-coal-communities

Our executive director Joe Goffman interviewed Dr. Francesca Dominici recently to talk about public health, pollution, and science. Dominici is Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Co-Director of the Data Science Initiative at Harvard University. Listen below, or scroll down to read key points from our interview on rollbacks and public health, new science on air pollution exposure, and the recent Trump administration proposal to suppress public health studies. Read more here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2018/07/podcast-with-francesca-dominici-on-air-quality-public-health-and-science/ or visit our website here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/ Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-4-Joe-Dominici-public-health-data-clean-air.pdf

We speak with Janet McCabe, former Acting Assistant Administrator for the EPA Office of Air and Radiation and current Assistant Director for Policy and Implementation at Indiana University’s Environmental Resilience Institute and a Senior Law Fellow at the Environmental Law and Policy Center. Read more here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2018/06/subverting-the-process-of-setting-health-based-air-quality-standards-eelp-interviews-janet-mccabe/ or visit our website here https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/. Thank you to the Harvard University Center for the Environment for helping with this podcast. Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-3-Joe-McCabe-modifying-air-quality-standards.pdf

Harvard Law School's Environmental & Energy Law Program Executive Director Joe Goffman interviews Electricity Initiative Director Ari Peskoe about the DOE memo leaked in May, 2018. The memo discusses a "Strategic Electric Generation Reserve" and tactics to support uneconomic coal and nuclear plants. https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/ Full transcript available here http://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/CleanLaw-2-Joe-Ari-leaked-DOE-memo.pdf

This seminar was given on April 5, 2018 by Joe Goffman, Executive Director of the Harvard Environmental Law Program at HLS. It was part of the Regulatory Policy Program's weekly seminar series