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🏛 Responsive Government
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Join us Tues, Feb. 24 at 1 p.m. ET for a webinar on using satellite imagery to track data centers & land use. Learn an open-source pipeline, core GIS concepts, and real-world case studies. 🌍🛰️
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Join us Tues, Feb. 24 at 1 p.m. ET for a webinar on using satellite imagery to track data centers & land use. Learn an open-source pipeline, core GIS concepts, and real-world case studies. 🌍🛰️
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January 23, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Join us Tues, Feb. 24 at 1 p.m. ET for a webinar on using satellite imagery to track data centers & land use. Learn an open-source pipeline, core GIS concepts, and real-world case studies. 🌍🛰️
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In a recent article, three energy policy experts, including Member Scholar Shelley Welton, argue that the TVA’s “decidedly mixed” record is the result of fixable institutional design choices rather than failures intrinsic to public ownership.
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The Future of the Tennessee Valley Authority | The Regulatory Review
Scholars assess the TVA as a blueprint for publicly owned utilities in the green energy transition.
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January 22, 2026 at 5:25 PM
In a recent article, three energy policy experts, including Member Scholar Shelley Welton, argue that the TVA’s “decidedly mixed” record is the result of fixable institutional design choices rather than failures intrinsic to public ownership.
www.theregreview.org/2026/01/21/b...
www.theregreview.org/2026/01/21/b...
There are also strict laws about what employers can and can’t do in the next few months, Member Scholar Mike Duff said, including offering benefits to push the union away, retaliating against employees for seeking a union, or interrogating them about their labor activity.
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After failed vote, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort tried to delay future ski patrol union election
In an apparent effort to run out the clock and delay a future vote, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort opposed its ski patrol’s request to end its unionization drive — a
www.jhnewsandguide.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:18 PM
There are also strict laws about what employers can and can’t do in the next few months, Member Scholar Mike Duff said, including offering benefits to push the union away, retaliating against employees for seeking a union, or interrogating them about their labor activity.
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I was pleased to join @pocan.house.gov on "With Liberty and Justice for Some" to discuss the last year of the Trump administration and its implementation of Project 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyUa...
With Liberty and Justice for Some Ep. 50 with James Goodwin
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January 21, 2026 at 7:04 PM
I was pleased to join @pocan.house.gov on "With Liberty and Justice for Some" to discuss the last year of the Trump administration and its implementation of Project 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyUa...
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Trump suffers major losses in his war on offshore wind
The administration’s arguments that offshore wind farms present a national security risk failed to convince judges in three separate courts.
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January 18, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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“The government is required to explain itself and obviously in all three of these cases the judges are convinced that they haven’t,” Member Scholar Joel Eisen said, noting the judges were appointed by three different presidents but all reached the same conclusion.
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Trump suffers major losses in his war on offshore wind
The administration’s arguments that offshore wind farms present a national security risk failed to convince judges in three separate courts.
www.politico.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:28 PM
“The government is required to explain itself and obviously in all three of these cases the judges are convinced that they haven’t,” Member Scholar Joel Eisen said, noting the judges were appointed by three different presidents but all reached the same conclusion.
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Member Scholar Alexandra Klass, of the University of Michigan Law, who worked at the Dept. of Energy during the Biden administration, said the development of transmission driven by large data centers could be a legal gray area.
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Data center ‘extension cord’ draws landowners’ ire
A developer for OpenAI and Oracle is facing stiff opposition to a proposed $1.4 billion transmission line for its Stargate project in Wisconsin.
www.eenews.net
January 20, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Member Scholar Alexandra Klass, of the University of Michigan Law, who worked at the Dept. of Energy during the Biden administration, said the development of transmission driven by large data centers could be a legal gray area.
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Member Scholar Victor Flatt said, currently, gas powered cars are slightly cheaper to make than electric ones. "That's only looking at the manufacturing costs...what it doesn’t take into account are the cost of fuel and maintenance.”
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Trump Administration aims to reduce new car prices
The U.S Department of Transportation says removing strict fuel efficiency standards will reduce the price of new cars
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January 20, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Member Scholar Victor Flatt said, currently, gas powered cars are slightly cheaper to make than electric ones. "That's only looking at the manufacturing costs...what it doesn’t take into account are the cost of fuel and maintenance.”
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“The environmental laws—the Clean Air Act, RCRA, CERCLA—they’re some of the very, very few laws that specifically put human health superior to other things,” Member Scholar Victor Flatt said.
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Move to Mute Air Rule Health Costs Eases Deregulation (Correct)
The EPA’s decision this week to scrap consideration of the dollar value of health effects in air pollution rulemaking ends a longstanding strategy that stands to blind the public to the monetary benef...
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January 20, 2026 at 9:01 PM
“The environmental laws—the Clean Air Act, RCRA, CERCLA—they’re some of the very, very few laws that specifically put human health superior to other things,” Member Scholar Victor Flatt said.
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“It also seems arbitrary and capricious to respond to uncertainty by eliminating environmental benefits from the analysis,” Member Scholar Dan Farber of Berkeley Law said in a Jan. 12 blog post.
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Move to Mute Air Rule Health Costs Eases Deregulation (Correct)
The EPA’s decision this week to scrap consideration of the dollar value of health effects in air pollution rulemaking ends a longstanding strategy that stands to blind the public to the monetary benef...
news.bloomberglaw.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:52 PM
“It also seems arbitrary and capricious to respond to uncertainty by eliminating environmental benefits from the analysis,” Member Scholar Dan Farber of Berkeley Law said in a Jan. 12 blog post.
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MLK didn’t just warn us about racism. He warned us about systems that quietly destroy lives.
Extreme heat. Toxic air. Flooded communities.
That’s structural violence.
Climate justice IS civil rights work.
Extreme heat. Toxic air. Flooded communities.
That’s structural violence.
Climate justice IS civil rights work.
January 19, 2026 at 2:51 PM
MLK didn’t just warn us about racism. He warned us about systems that quietly destroy lives.
Extreme heat. Toxic air. Flooded communities.
That’s structural violence.
Climate justice IS civil rights work.
Extreme heat. Toxic air. Flooded communities.
That’s structural violence.
Climate justice IS civil rights work.
'EPA’s new plans could have major health costs'
"And there’s a legal irony here. @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social, the co-executive director at the Center for Progressive Reform, noted that the move appeared to ignore the 2015 Supreme Court case Michigan v. E.P.A."
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"And there’s a legal irony here. @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social, the co-executive director at the Center for Progressive Reform, noted that the move appeared to ignore the 2015 Supreme Court case Michigan v. E.P.A."
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January 14, 2026 at 3:08 PM
'EPA’s new plans could have major health costs'
"And there’s a legal irony here. @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social, the co-executive director at the Center for Progressive Reform, noted that the move appeared to ignore the 2015 Supreme Court case Michigan v. E.P.A."
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"And there’s a legal irony here. @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social, the co-executive director at the Center for Progressive Reform, noted that the move appeared to ignore the 2015 Supreme Court case Michigan v. E.P.A."
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At Harvard, a Black Dean Falls as Trump’s War on Equity Tightens sdvoice.info/at-harvard-a...
"A report by the Center for Progressive Reform documented how Trump’s second term has revived long standing strategies used against Black Americans, including efforts to freeze federal funding..."
"A report by the Center for Progressive Reform documented how Trump’s second term has revived long standing strategies used against Black Americans, including efforts to freeze federal funding..."
At Harvard, a Black Dean Falls as Trump’s War on Equity Tightens
Harvard University now finds itself standing where politics, power, and punishment meet, as the removal of a Black dean unfolds
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January 13, 2026 at 8:58 PM
At Harvard, a Black Dean Falls as Trump’s War on Equity Tightens sdvoice.info/at-harvard-a...
"A report by the Center for Progressive Reform documented how Trump’s second term has revived long standing strategies used against Black Americans, including efforts to freeze federal funding..."
"A report by the Center for Progressive Reform documented how Trump’s second term has revived long standing strategies used against Black Americans, including efforts to freeze federal funding..."
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"James Goodwin, the interim co-executive director and policy director at @progressivereform.bsky.social an advocacy group, said the move appeared to ignore the 2015 Supreme Court case Michigan v. E.P.A." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
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January 12, 2026 at 5:15 PM
"James Goodwin, the interim co-executive director and policy director at @progressivereform.bsky.social an advocacy group, said the move appeared to ignore the 2015 Supreme Court case Michigan v. E.P.A." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
Community-Level Preparedness and Recovery for Increasingly Severe Weather, by The Environmental Collaboratory at Drexel Univ., is here! It outlines the challenges communities face during extreme weather & provides actionable guidance for preparedness and recovery.
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Preparing Communities for Increasingly Severe Weather: Report Launch
YouTube video by The Environmental Collaboratory at Drexel
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January 12, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Community-Level Preparedness and Recovery for Increasingly Severe Weather, by The Environmental Collaboratory at Drexel Univ., is here! It outlines the challenges communities face during extreme weather & provides actionable guidance for preparedness and recovery.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZq...
Environmental criminal cases often arise from either an intentionally bad act or gross negligence on the part of the defendant, such as cutting corners or violating regulations in order to save money and increase profits, said Member Scholar Victor Flatt, JD.
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Records reveal federal criminal search warrant served at Smitty’s Supply
Federal agents executed a search warrant at the Smitty’s Supply plant, records show, signaling a rare environmental crimes investigation could be underway.
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January 12, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Environmental criminal cases often arise from either an intentionally bad act or gross negligence on the part of the defendant, such as cutting corners or violating regulations in order to save money and increase profits, said Member Scholar Victor Flatt, JD.
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Determining who, legally, is a supervisor and whether those votes should count will take time and federal review. Supervisors are excluded from unionization votes because the National Labor Relations Act deems them representatives of management..." -Member Scholar Mike Duff
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Resolving union vote for Jackson Hole Mountain Resort ski patrol could take weeks
After four sessions of voting over two days, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort ski patrollers voted against unionization, though a handful of ballots were challenged and the result is not final.
www.jhnewsandguide.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Determining who, legally, is a supervisor and whether those votes should count will take time and federal review. Supervisors are excluded from unionization votes because the National Labor Relations Act deems them representatives of management..." -Member Scholar Mike Duff
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bit.ly/4qRJBNX
"In 2025, President Trump rolled out new initiatives at a dizzying rate. That story dominated the news. This year, much of the news will again be about Trump, but he will have less control of the narrative."
Find out what's ahead, according to Member Scholar Daniel Farber.
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Find out what's ahead, according to Member Scholar Daniel Farber.
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2026: The Year Ahead - Center for Progressive Reform
In 2025, President Donald Trump rolled out new initiatives at a dizzying rate. That story, in one form or another, dominated the news. This year, much of the news will again be about Trump, but he wil...
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January 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM
"In 2025, President Trump rolled out new initiatives at a dizzying rate. That story dominated the news. This year, much of the news will again be about Trump, but he will have less control of the narrative."
Find out what's ahead, according to Member Scholar Daniel Farber.
bit.ly/45LSBMl
Find out what's ahead, according to Member Scholar Daniel Farber.
bit.ly/45LSBMl
PJM didn't hit capacity. What does that mean?
Maryland Energy Talk host Jamie DeMarco chats with CPR Senior Policy Analyst Bryan Dunning to discuss. @jamiedemarco.bsky.social
Take a listen! bit.ly/3LF06xT
Maryland Energy Talk host Jamie DeMarco chats with CPR Senior Policy Analyst Bryan Dunning to discuss. @jamiedemarco.bsky.social
Take a listen! bit.ly/3LF06xT
PJM Didn’t Hit Capacity. What Does That Mean?
Everything you need to know about the most recent PJM Capacity Auction
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January 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
PJM didn't hit capacity. What does that mean?
Maryland Energy Talk host Jamie DeMarco chats with CPR Senior Policy Analyst Bryan Dunning to discuss. @jamiedemarco.bsky.social
Take a listen! bit.ly/3LF06xT
Maryland Energy Talk host Jamie DeMarco chats with CPR Senior Policy Analyst Bryan Dunning to discuss. @jamiedemarco.bsky.social
Take a listen! bit.ly/3LF06xT
Featuring insights from Member Scholar @dfarber1950.bsky.social of @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social
My latest is about regulatory cost-benefit analysis and how conservatives fell out of love with it. (Spoiler alert: It wasn’t because they started liking regulations.)
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The Peak of Trump’s Fact-Free Vendetta Against Regulation
Conservatives once promoted cost-benefit analysis to check the administrative state—until it got better at measuring the huge benefits of regulation.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Featuring insights from Member Scholar @dfarber1950.bsky.social of @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social
While we’re proud of our successes and achievements, the next several years won’t be business as usual at the Center. We’re charting a strategic course focused on the future, emphasizing restoration, rebuilding, and reimagining policy, agencies, and our government. Join us!
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December 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
While we’re proud of our successes and achievements, the next several years won’t be business as usual at the Center. We’re charting a strategic course focused on the future, emphasizing restoration, rebuilding, and reimagining policy, agencies, and our government. Join us!
progressivereform.org
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Our 2025 Wrapped is in: breakout wins, “be so for real” policies, staff pet chaos, record impressions across platforms, and the most random playlist you’ve ever seen. Through it all, we stayed the course. Thanks for being here. See you next year?
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December 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Our 2025 Wrapped is in: breakout wins, “be so for real” policies, staff pet chaos, record impressions across platforms, and the most random playlist you’ve ever seen. Through it all, we stayed the course. Thanks for being here. See you next year?
youtube.com/shorts/TpCHm...
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On December 10, Member Scholar Dan Rohlf testified before a House Natural Resources subcommittee, pushing back on claims that environmental groups “abuse” the Equal Access to Justice Act while working to protect our air, water, and wildlife.
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Dan Rohlf Before Congress: Environmental Groups & the Equal Access to Justice Act
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December 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
On December 10, Member Scholar Dan Rohlf testified before a House Natural Resources subcommittee, pushing back on claims that environmental groups “abuse” the Equal Access to Justice Act while working to protect our air, water, and wildlife.
youtu.be/BUqyxBiuHsI
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It’s “fairly difficult for the admin. to make that argument, given that they want to promote oil & gas, and trying to establish a rule that makes these leases revocable at will is not going to induce people to invest enough for oil & gas development,” Member Scholar Robin Craig said. bit.ly/4rKpliB
Trump’s Anti-Wind Energy Push Is Throwing A Wrench In Its Permitting Agenda
A report commissioned by the Department of Energy underscored how the administration’s legal challenges to offshore wind could also prove dangerous for oil and gas infrastructure.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It’s “fairly difficult for the admin. to make that argument, given that they want to promote oil & gas, and trying to establish a rule that makes these leases revocable at will is not going to induce people to invest enough for oil & gas development,” Member Scholar Robin Craig said. bit.ly/4rKpliB
The OMB’s push for “rollback exceptionalism” isn’t about freedom; it’s about fast-tracking the removal of protections that people rely on. Read more in the new @theregreview.bsky.social commentary by Member Scholar @dfarber1950.bsky.social
www.theregreview.org/2025/12/08/f...
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The Case Against Rollback Exceptionalism | The Regulatory Review
OMB’s recent memo fails to make a successful case for deregulation.
www.theregreview.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The OMB’s push for “rollback exceptionalism” isn’t about freedom; it’s about fast-tracking the removal of protections that people rely on. Read more in the new @theregreview.bsky.social commentary by Member Scholar @dfarber1950.bsky.social
www.theregreview.org/2025/12/08/f...
www.theregreview.org/2025/12/08/f...