Ep108—What Science and the Law Say about EPA’s Authority to Regulate GHGs
From CleanLaw by HLS Environmental & Energy Law Program
August 18, 2025 · 53 min
About this episode
The episode discusses EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases and the legal and scientific arguments surrounding the agency's Endangerment Finding.
EELP's Founding Director and Harvard Law Professor, Jody Freeman, speaks with Harvard Law Professor Richard Lazarus and Solomon Hsiang, Professor of Global Environmental Policy at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. They speak about EPA's recent proposal to repeal the agency's 2009 Endangerment Finding, and dig into the legal and scientific arguments offered by EPA. They discuss whether the Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA already answers some of these legal questions and the state of the science on climate change: what we knew in 2009 when EPA first made its Endangerment Finding, and how our understanding has continued to improve. Transcript: https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CleanLaw_EP108-Transcript.pdf eelp.law.harvard.edu
People in this episode
Host: Jody Freeman
Guests: Richard Lazarus, Solomon Hsiang
Topics covered
- EPA authority
- greenhouse gases
- climate change
- legal arguments
- scientific understanding
Keywords
- EPA
- greenhouse gases
- climate change
- legal arguments
- Endangerment Finding
- Massachusetts v. EPA
- scientific understanding
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: EPA, Harvard Law, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Books & works: Endangerment Finding
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