On June 1, 2022, the Clinic submitted an amicus brief on behalf of three leading experts supporting a challenge to an action by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) involving the toxic herbicide paraquat dichloride (often simply called “paraquat”). Specifically, EPA approved paraquat’s use for the next fifteen years under…
On November 22, 2021, the Clinic submitted comments to the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) supporting its proposed partial reversal of the Trump administration’s weakening of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing regulations.
On February 9, 2021, the Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of eleven clinical law professors in support of the appellants in Sierra Club v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The appellants had brought suit claiming the…
On February 5, 2021, the Clinic submitted a comment letter urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reverse its proposed registration decision for chlorpyrifos and revise the underlying Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA). The Clinic’s letter calls into question EPA’s decision to use 10% red blood cell acetyl cholinesterase (AChE)…
On November 30, 2020, the Clinic filed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs in Wild Virginia v. Council on Environmental Quality, challenging the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) recent revisions to its regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The Clinic’s brief argues that the recent CEQ…
On May 18, 2020, the Clinic filed comments on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s supplemental notice for its “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” proposal on behalf of Harvard President Lawrence Bacow and more than three dozen other leaders in science and medicine from Harvard University. The supplemental notice expands on…
On March 10, 2020, the Clinic submitted comments on behalf of itself and 15 other environmental law clinics on the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) proposed update to its Regulations Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The comments request that CEQ withdraw the proposal because…
These comments submitted by the Clinic, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and Dr. Karen Baehler of American University focus on the health equity, environmental justice, and civil rights aspects of the EPA’s proposed revisions to its Lead and Copper Rule (LCR). The Clinic’s/EDF’s analysis of the proposed revisions, as well as…
On January 10, 2020, the Clinic submitted comments to the EPA Science Advisory Board (“SAB”) on the SAB’s draft report on the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil- Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units—Reconsideration of Supplemental Finding and Residual Risk and Technology Review, 84 Fed. Reg.
On January 10, 2020, the Clinic submitted comments to the EPA Science Advisory Board (“SAB”) on the SAB’s draft commentary on EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ proposed Revised Definition of “Waters of the United States,” 84 Fed. Reg. 4154 (Feb. 14, 2019).
