Share it here when you're ready. Definitely need more Approps law scholarship!

and yet also a large part of recent cost increases is on the distribution side.

Makes sense. Seems like then there is a way to highlight clean energy support while loudly opposing certain energy restrictions.

And maybe opens door to characterizing GOP anti-climate obsession (anti-solar/wind) as leading to cost increases for purely ideological reasons (GOP's version of "woke")

And to be clear, I'm talking about energy/climate qua IRA not opposition to fraking. Though of course that then raises the question of why anti-climate is "good" rather than like Senimas corporatist heterodoxy.

Feels like there's just a lot of handwaving on that issue in particular.

One piece that I'd love to see more discussion here is why "climate" and "energy" have been consistently thrown into the category of helpful to take heterodox positions. They're not social issues (or, I guess if they are that raises the second order question of what is social vs econ).

Very underdeveloped area of academic legal inquiry, imo. Looking forward

Um... Check my bio. I'm talking about chargers literally at the White House.

Such a doctrinal perspective Madison. It's that the make-up of the Court that created Loper will lead to a different outcome.

This report is just a bunch of warmed over 10 years old climate skeptic talking points.

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Saying otherwise is wrong. And saying otherwise by way of official government regulatory action is contrary to law.

But, for the record, greenhouse gases significantly contribute to dangerous climate change. Lowering US emissions will be meaningful to Americans and the world, directly and by way of what they mean for technological and international leadership.

One final note. The EO speaks of the importance of transmission (and specifically high voltage transmission). This is extremely correct. We need much more for data centers, reliability etc.

But it's quite ironic to highlight the importance of high voltage transmission today of all days.

One nugget: I think this is the first time a specific threshold is set for the percent of federal $ that triggers NEPA (50%), though many questions remain for how one calculates this (particularly in the context of loans, tax credits, etc).