{"id":5758,"date":"2020-08-03T16:53:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2020-08-06T16:59:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T16:59:01","slug":"clinic-submits-comments-on-epas-proposed-clean-air-act-rulemaking-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/2020\/08\/03\/clinic-submits-comments-on-epas-proposed-clean-air-act-rulemaking-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinic submits comments on EPA&#8217;s proposed Clean Air Act rulemaking process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 3, 2020 \u2013 Today, the Clinic submitted comments on behalf of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the National Parks Conservation Association on the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Proposed Rule \u201cIncreasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Benefits and Costs in the Clean Air Act Rulemaking Process.\u201d\u00a0 The comments urge EPA to withdraw the Proposed Rule in light of the agency\u2019s lack of authority to promulgate the Rule under Section 301 of the Clean Air Act, including because there is no demonstrated need for the Proposed Rule and because the Proposed Rule would encode value judgments that substantively affect public and private parties.<\/p>\n<p>The comments provide examples of how the Proposed Rule would undermine environmental protections and the existing regulatory programs that are essential to public health, protection of ecosystems and wildlife, and local economies, and would push additional compliance obligations onto states and private parties.\u00a0 The Proposed Rule also fails to identify or assess how these impacts would affect environmental health and safety risks in vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n<p>The comments were prepared by Senior Clinical Instructor and Staff Attorney Aladdine Joroff and Clinic student Sarah Douglas (JD \u201921).<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read the comments:\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/files\/2020\/08\/CBF-and-NPCA-Comments-on-Proposed-CAA-Rule-Docket-EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-00044.pdf\">Comments On Proposed Rule: \u201cIncreasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Benefits and Costs In The Clean Air Act Rulemaking Process,\u201d 85 Fed. Reg 35,612, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2020-0044<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click below for press releases from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the National Parks Conservation Association:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbf.org\/news-media\/newsroom\/2020\/federal\/cbf-national-parks-conservation-association-oppose-epa-proposal.html\">Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) Press Release<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npca.org\/articles\/2628-npca-chesapeake-bay-foundation-oppose-epa-proposal-to-devalue-co-benefits\">National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) Press Release<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 3, 2020 \u2013 Today, the Clinic submitted comments on behalf of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the National Parks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinic-publications","category-news","post-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}