Jody Freeman

Founding Director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program

Jody Freeman is the Archibald Cox Professor of Law and the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program. Her book, “Global Climate Change and U.S. Law” (co-edited with Michael Gerrard), was published in 2015. She served in the White House as a counselor for energy and climate change in 2009–10. She has been appointed to the Administrative Conference of the United States, the government think tank for improving the administrative and regulatory processes, and was elected a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers. She also serves as an independent director of ConocoPhillips. She has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Guardian, Politico, and Foreign Affairs.

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Climate Change: The EPA Has Gone Overboard

With Jody Freeman, Charles McConnell, Michael Nasi, Carl Pope

September 7, 2016

Reducing carbon emissions is clearly good for the environment but often imposes substantial costs. The costs are most obvious when coal companies go bankrupt, but can affect everyone indirectly through higher energy costs, slower economic growth, reduced employment, and lower business profits. Has the Environmental Protection Agency considered the costs and benefits of its regulatory mandates fairly and appropriately? Is its Clean Power Plan a bold initiative to reduce carbon pollution at power plants, or an unconstitutional usurpation of power?

Climate Change: The EPA Has Gone Overboard

With Jody Freeman, Charles McConnell, Michael Nasi, Carl Pope

September 7, 2016

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