Great Lakes Law

EPA takes major steps towards regulating greenhouse gas pollution

The Obama EPA is moving forward with several major steps towards regulating the greenhouse gas pollution that causes climate change. Most significantly, the EPA just announced a proposed endangerment finding for greenhouse gas pollution. The endangerment finding would trigger a new regulatory process for carbon dioxide emissions and other climate change pollutants. (For an overview of the EPA’s endangerment finding, see this internal EPA presentation detailing the process and analysis, and see the EPA's webpage... Read more →

High-Speed Rail for Michigan: We don’t know what we’ve been missing

The following guest post is by Kevin Brubaker, Deputy Director of the Environmental Law & Policy Center in Chicago. Kevin manages the Midwest High-Speed Rail Network Project for the Environmental Law & Policy Center. Their 15 years of advocacy on this important and visionary project are finally paying off, as the Midwest is poised to get help from the federal stimulus program to make high-speed rail in the region a reality. Linking Detroit and other... Read more →