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CPR’s Glicksman to Testify at House Hearing on Ozone Regulations

This morning CPR Scholar and George Washington University Law School professor Robert Glicksman will testify in support of EPA's proposed rule to regulate ozone. The Hearing, held by the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommitee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade will focus on the potential impacts of the proposed ozone rule on manufacturing. 

Glicksman's testimony corrects misinformation about the ozone rule's potential negative impact on manufacturing. He notes,

My testimony makes four key points:

  1. A strong national ozone pollution standard that fulfills the public health goals of the Clean Air act will deliver significant benefits for human health and the environment.  
  2. Regulations, such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) pending ozone standard, can and do provide important economic benefits for U.S. businesses, including those in the manufacturing sector.  
  3. A frequently cited study purporting to find catastrophic economic effects from a strong ozone standard is flawed and fails to provide a reliable accounting of the rule’s potential impacts.  
  4. To the contrary, the available evidence confirms that strong national standards for ozone pollution are not an impediment to economic growth.

To read Glicksman's full testimony, click here.

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Erin Kesler | June 16, 2015

CPR’s Glicksman to Testify at House Hearing on Ozone Regulations

This morning CPR Scholar and George Washington University Law School professor Robert Glicksman will testify in support of EPA’s proposed rule to regulate ozone. The Hearing, held by the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommitee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade will focus on the potential impacts of the proposed ozone rule on manufacturing.  Glicksman’s testimony corrects misinformation about […]

Thomas McGarity | June 15, 2015

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Richard Pierce, Jr. | June 10, 2015

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Daniel Farber | June 9, 2015

Clean Air versus States Rights

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Richard Pierce, Jr. | June 9, 2015

Now Is the Time to Implement a Carbon Tax

Editor’s Note: This is the first of two posts on market-based approaches to reducing carbon emissions. Today’s focuses on a carbon tax; tomorrow’s on real-time pricing of electricity. There is a broad consensus among economists that we will not be able to mitigate climate change efficiently and effectively unless we place a price on carbon. […]

Evan Isaacson | June 9, 2015

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The State of Maryland released a long overdue report on Monday regarding the state’s plan to finance its implementation of the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (Bay TMDL) requirements.  The report was prepared by the Environmental Finance Center at the University of Maryland on behalf of the Maryland Department of the Environment, the Department […]

William Buzbee | June 3, 2015

The New Final ‘Waters of the United States’ Rule: Separating Rhetoric and Reality

William W. Buzbee, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, offers his comments here regarding the May 27, 2015 released final rule and accompanying materials regarding what waters are federally protected “waters of the United States.”  Professor Buzbee is also a founding member-scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform.  He has testified repeatedly before congressional […]

William Funk | June 3, 2015

An Unconstitutional Attempt to Roll-back Public Health Protections

Senator Rounds (SD-R) has introduced a proposed concurrent resolution to establish a Joint Select Committee on Regulatory Reform to address the alleged “regulatory overreach that is so prevalent in all sectors of the U.S. economy” by, among other things, conducting a “systematic review” of all rules adopted by federal agencies, supposedly in the name of […]

Erin Kesler | June 2, 2015

CPR’s Hammond Testifies at House Energy and Commerce Hearing

This morning CPR Scholar and George Washington University Law School professor Emily Hammond will testify at a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power entitled, “Quadrennial Energy Review.“ According to Professor Hammond’s testimony: A critical challenge for energy policy in the United States is that it has evolved in a piecemeal fashion, focusing on […]

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