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 15, 2024, the Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Union of Concerned Scientists in a case challenging a Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board decision to grant a certificate authorizing construction of an electrical substation in Eagle Hill, Boston, an environmental justice community. The Clinic’s…
On March 28, 2024, the Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of a group of scholars with expertise in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or “ERISA.” The plaintiffs in this case challenged the Department of Labor’s “2022 Investment Duties Rule” (“2022 Rule”), a set of…
On December 7, 2023, the Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of Natural Resources Law Professors in support of the government. The question in this case was whether an action taken by the National Marine Fisheries Service under the Endangered Species Act amounted to a physical or regulatory…
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 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 January 21, 2021, the Emmett Clinic filed an amicus brief in support of state, local government, and public interest organization petitioners in Competitive Enterprise Institute v. National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The petitioners are challenging the…
On December 17, 2020, the Emmett Clinic filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) in Conservation Law Foundation v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Clinic’s brief argues that the rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act because the agencies failed to conduct an adequate analysis…
