Environmental, Energy, and Administrative Law Resources
A collection of papers and reports analyzing issues in environmental, energy, and administrative law
APA Exemptions
- “Nondiscretionary” Repeals: How the Trump Administration’s Untested Deregulatory Theory Violates the Administrative Procedure Act (Policy Integrity, Dec. 2025)
- Comments to EPA on Interim Final Rule Extending Deadlines to Comply with Methane Emission Standards for Oil and Natural Gas Sector (Policy Integrity, Oct. 2025)
- Statutory Interpretation and Deregulation: Key Considerations from Recent Supreme Court Decisions (Policy Integrity, June 2025)
- Preventing Public Participation: The Trump Administration’s Misuse of the Good Cause Exception to Fast-Track Deregulation (Policy Integrity, April 2025)
Congressional Review Act
- The Weaponization of the Congressional Review Act in 2025 (Policy Integrity, Feb. 2026)
- The Congressional Review Act in 2025: Expanding Use and Emerging Questions (EELP, Feb. 2026)
- Amicus Brief in the D.C. Circuit on the Narrow Application of the Congressional Review Act (Policy Integrity, Jan. 2026)
Energy
- One Year of Trump’s ‘Energy Emergency’ in Context and in Court (EELP, Jan. 2026)
- Extracting Profits from the Public: How Utility Ratepayers Are Paying for Big Tech’s Power (EELP, March 2025)
- The Federal Authority to License Small Modular Reactors (Policy Integrity, March 2026)
- Drivers of Transmission: Examining Demand Growth and State Clean Energy Policies (Policy Integrity, Jan. 2026)
Endangerment Finding
- Missing the Mark: The Flaws in EPA’s Major Questions Argument to Withdraw the Endangerment Finding (Policy Integrity, Jan. 2026)
- The Endangerment Finding Recission and Implications for State Climate Action (EELP, Dec. 2025)
- Economic Consensus Favors Climate Action: A Response to the Department of Energy’s Climate Report (Policy Integrity, Sept. 2025)
- The Bottom Line: Regulatory Costs Don’t Belong in Endangerment Findings (Policy Integrity, May 2025)
Final Agency Action
- Federal Court Vacates Wind Energy Authorization Pause (EELP, Dec. 2025)
- Flawed Foundations: Identifying Errors in Regulatory Analysis for Deregulatory Actions (Policy Integrity, Dec. 2025)
- Credibility Check: An Assessment of Scientific Integrity in Recent Government Climate Reports (Policy Integrity, Sept. 2025)
- Rescissions Without Reasons: How Barebones Deregulatory Proposals Flout Legal Requirements (Policy Integrity, June 2025)
- Zero Rationality: What OIRA’s New Memorandum Gets Wrong on Monetizing Climate Impacts (Policy Integrity, May 2025)
Major Questions Doctrine
- Missing the Mark: The Flaws in EPA’s Major Questions Argument to Withdraw the Endangerment Finding (Policy Integrity, Jan. 2026)
- Policy Integrity Amicus Brief on Major Questions Doctrine Cited in Trump Tariff Case in Court of International Trade (Policy Integrity, June 2025)
Regulatory Analysis
- The Scale of Significance: Oil and Gas (Policy Integrity, March 2026)
- Lifting the Smog: Debunking Myths around Particulate Matter Standards (Policy Integrity, Feb. 2026)
- Under the Hood: EPA and DOT’s Models Overlook Hidden Attributes of Fuel Efficiency Improvements (Policy Integrity, Feb. 2026)
State Resources
- Weighing GHGs in New York (Policy Integrity, March 2026)