Barry Rabe

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Legislative vacuum creates a prominent role for courts in climate policy, says Rabe

Oct 23, 2020 E & E

"We've had every combination of partisan control you can have: all Democrat, all Republican ... the outcome is no new environmental legislation of major consequence," Rabe said. "That creates a vacuum." The legislative void is not the only reason...

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Rabe suggests carbon tax less vulnerable to court challenge than other climate initiatives

Oct 22, 2020 Inside EPA/Climate

“We are going to have to be thinking of any bill, can it pass constitutional muster,” Rabe said during an October 15 Brookings Institution event. According to the Inside EPA/Climate article, he suggested tax policies are relatively impervious to...

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Rabe: Trump re-election would further marginalize EPA staff

Oct 21, 2020 Inside EPA

It would be an “opportunity [for the Trump administration] to consolidate and finalize” deregulatory rules and interpretations now pending at EPA or in the courts, said Barry Rabe during an Oct. 15 Brookings Institution webinar on the election’s...

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A Biden victory still means confronting steep climate policy challenges, says Rabe

Oct 16, 2020 Environment & Energy News

"The administrative route, in my view, is loaded with challenges," Rabe said during a Brookings Institution sponsored panel. The article notes that Biden's other option — trying to get Congress to enact climate legislation — also would be...

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Rabe on Biden's appeal to Michigan farmers

Oct 12, 2020 Business Insider

“Climate is a really hard thing to explain, especially when you’re talking about localised impacts," said Rabe. "It’s one thing to talk about wildfires or hurricanes, but hitting plants and agriculture is really significant.” Read the full...

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Rabe: Tackling climate change may require new legislation given US courts, limits to Clean Air Act

Oct 2, 2020 Environment & Energy News

"Legislation can breathe and adjust and be reinterpreted, but at some point, you probably have to go back to the legislative drawing board," said Ford School professor Barry Rabe, "especially if you're thinking of taking on a massive issue like...

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Rabe on the transition away from coal

Oct 2, 2020 Chicago Tribune

“I’m hard-pressed to think of any state or analyst upbeat about the future of coal,” said Rabe. “Increasingly, the discussion is about how we can navigate a just, humane transition.” Read the full Chicago Tribune article...

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Rabe examines Trump’s “Administrative Presidency” in a new book

Oct 1, 2020

The administration of Donald Trump has used executive orders and regulatory changes in a far-reaching expansion of presidential power to reverse many policies of the Obama administration. In a new book published by the Brookings Institution Press,...

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Rabe: A conservative Supreme Court could diminish unilateral executive action on environmental policy

Sep 28, 2020

"Even if former Vice President Joe Biden wins the White House," said Rabe, "the high court’s new makeup would set up a questionable future for aggressive Biden administration environmental policies. I think it likely dials back ambition for any...

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Rabe discusses how Democratic governors tackle climate policy

Sep 24, 2020 Environment & Energy News

“We’re in a window where a lot of Democratic governors are trying to do something related to climate, and if the executive order approach is their only route, carbon neutrality is a kind of popular step,” said Rabe. Read the full E&E News...

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Rabe: Linking climate to infrastructure and job creation requires a plan

Sep 23, 2020 Roll Call

“On one hand, in terms of initial public perception, [linking climate change to infrastructure] can be attractive because you’re allowing each citizen to paint with their imagination what it will be like,” Rabe said. But the challenge, he added,...

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Rabe says climate concerns matter in 2020 vote

Sep 22, 2020 Environment & Energy News

"In ways that we haven't seen before, the climate and environment issues never really go away. It keeps resurfacing in ways that are relatively unique to the last 20 years or so," Rabe told E&E News. Read the full Environment & Energy News...

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Rabe: Green Super PACs can have real influence in 2020 elections

Jul 30, 2020

In an article in E&E News, Ford School professor Barry Rabe is quoted as saying that the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), among other environmental organizations, can have a real impact on the elections in 2020. The article states, “The LCV...

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Rabe lauds the Great American Outdoors Act

Jul 20, 2020

Ford School professor of Environmental Policy Barry Rabe writes in an essay for the Niskanen Center July 16 that” the recent Senate passage of the Great American Outdoors Act–buoyed with overwhelming bipartisan support–is a remarkable achievement in...

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Future presidential climate change actions are limited, Rabe argues

Jun 25, 2020

In a FixGov blog for the Brookings Institution, Ford School professor Barry Rabe argues that environmental policy has been shaped for too long by executive order and administrative powers rather than more enduring legislation. "So should the 46th...

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Lessons from the Clean Air Act

Jun 15, 2020 Resources

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Daily on Energy: Aggrieved ethanol producers lay out demands for Congress, the EPA, and the FDA

May 15, 2020 Washington Examiner

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Biden risks alienating voters with climate policies, according to Rabe

May 15, 2020

Ford School professor Barry Rabe was quoted in an article in the Washington Examiner on May 14 about the risks of Vice President Joe Biden's campaign veering too far left in its climate policy. “At some point, there will be disappointment,” said...

Governors have emerged as President Trump's main opposition, according to Rabe

May 1, 2020

Tensions between Democratic governors and President Trump has been growing for years. Response to the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated and amplified those conflicts, so that Democratic governors, who have alternately criticized the President and...

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How Governors, Not Congress, Emerged as Trump's Main Opposition

Apr 28, 2020 Governing

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How the pandemic upended climate politics

Apr 20, 2020 E&E News

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Rabe explores taxing methane emissions

Mar 16, 2020

Representing a new line of research, Ford School professor Barry Rabe explores the politics around taxing methane gas releases. Rabe argues that consensus among economists is “the best way to reduce climate risks linked to carbon dioxide emissions...

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Rabe addresses the feasibility of Democratic electric vehicle proposals

Mar 9, 2020

Throughout the Democratic primary process, candidates have released climate change plans calling for the full electrification of vehicles within the next two decades. Professor Barry Rabe weighed in recently on how these proposals could impact...

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