On October 18, 2024, the Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of Rachel Rothschild, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Law School and scholar of environmental law, history, and policy, in support of EPA in a case challenging EPA’s performance standards for greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
On June 24, 2024, the Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of the American Thoracic Society and American Lung Association in support of EPA’s Good Neighbor Plan for 2015 Ozone NAAQS. Our brief explained the short- and long-term effects of ozone pollution on respiratory health. The brief also…
On June 11, 2024, the Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of Professor Rachel Rothschild, a scholar of environmental law, history, and policy at the University of Michigan Law School. Petitioners in this case challenge EPA’s rule setting new source performance standards for greenhouse gas emissions for power…
On April 11, 2022, the Emmett Clinic submitted comments supporting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to reaffirm earlier findings underlying the agency’s regulation of mercury and other toxic air pollutant emissions from coal-fired power plants. The comments were filed on behalf of a group of leading scientific experts in…
On June 14, 2021, the Clinic submitted comments on behalf of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and National Parks Conservation Association supporting EPA’s decision to rescind the Trump-era regulation regarding the use of cost-benefit analyses in Clean Air Act rulemakings. The letter supported EPA’s conclusion that the rulemaking was unnecessary, unresponsive…
On August 3, 2020, the Clinic submitted comments on behalf of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the National Parks Conservation Association on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Proposed Rule “Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Benefits and Costs in the Clean Air Act Rulemaking Process.” The comments urge EPA to withdraw…
On June 26, 2020, the Clinic submitted comments on behalf of researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Boston University School of Public Health on EPA’s proposal to leave in place the current NAAQS for particulate matter. The Clinic’s comments emphasized the irony that even…
Elsie M. Sunderland, et al., Benefits of Regulating Hazardous Air Pollutants from Coal and Oil-Fired Utilities in the United States, Enviro. Sci. Technol. (January 15, 2016) (Shaun Goho and Wendy Jacobs were contributing authors on this report). Click here for related news release.
Shaun A. Goho, The Legal Implications of Report-Back in Household Exposure Studies, Environmental Health Perspectives (May 6, 2016).
Wendy B. Jacobs, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Proposed Transparency Rule Threatens Health, Annals of Internal Medicine, Volume 170, No. 3 (February 5, 2019) (with R. N. Salas, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.; F. Laden, Sc.D.; and A. K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H.)…
