Holly Doremus quoted in Environment & Energy News, March 1, 2012

“It is a big challenge for EPA,” said Doremus. “It is absolutely clear that they’re rejecting specific words of statute.”

Holly Doremus quoted in Environment & Energy News, February 29, 2012

“The Bush administration did nothing,” agreed Holly Doremus, a professor of environmental law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. “The Obama administration EPA started exploring what they must and could do under the Clean Air Act.”

Environment & Energy News, February 3, 2012 by Lawrence Hurley
http://www.eenews.net/public/eenewspm/2012/02/03/1

“As Fletcher writes, it has long been the rule that agencies must evaluate the environmental consequences of their actions when it is reasonably possible to do so.”

Daily Journal, December 28, 2011 by Fiona Smith
http://bit.ly/A1iJm3 (registration required)

“The [Supreme] Court doesn’t seem to have come out with any clear doctrine, especially on when and to what extent they should presume state legislation is valid and to what extent they should put their thumb on the scales on behalf of the states,” Doremus said.

The Spokesman-Review, November 6, 2011 by Becky Kramer
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/nov/06/private-land-public-battle/

“The fact that the Supreme Court decided to take this case suggests that at least four members of the court think that the circuit courts are getting it wrong,” she said.

San Francisco Chronicle, September 25, 2011 by Gosia Wozniacka
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/24/BAG21L92R3.DTL

“I think those cases have been an incredible challenge,” said Holly Doremus, a law professor at UC Berkeley. “Judge Wanger took very seriously the task of sorting through the facts in these extremely complex, scientific cases.”

The New York Times, September 19, 2011 by Lawrence Hurley
http://nyti.ms/p31L8v

In defense of EPA, Berkeley’s Doremus dismissed the notion that the agency regularly throws its weight around by initiating enforcement proceedings against individual property owners like the Sacketts. That doesn’t happen, she said, because both EPA and the Army Corps “have been stung” in the past by efforts that have backfired politically.

The Billings Gazette, August 11, 2011 by Jeremy Pelzer
http://bit.ly/opFwkw

For one thing, she said, Fish and Wildlife biologists might be concerned whether Wyoming can accurately keep tabs on the state’s wolf population, given that wolves could be shot on sight without a license in part of the state. “They will have to do that process carefully,” Doremus said. “They’ll have to make sure they dot the procedural I’s and cross the T’s, because for sure they’re going to get sued.”

The New York Times, July 11, 2011 by Lawrence Hurley
http://nyti.ms/qiqmbJ

Legal experts do agree that there are enough differences between the GE and Sackett cases to explain why the court did not treat them the same. Holly Doremus, an environmental law professor … noted, for example, that the conservative wing of the court has a particular problem with wetlands regulation, which it sees, in her words, as a “breathtaking expansion of federal authority into virtually every corner of the geographic world.” The Superfund law does not attract “the same overt hostility” from those justices, which include the outspoken Antonin Scalia.

Associated Press, June 21, 2011 by Noaki Schwartz
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/22/travel/main20073328.shtml

Holly Doremus, an environmental law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said there has been debate over what constitutes solid waste, but in this case there’s no doubt the tiny toxic elements are waste…. “It’s not a slam dunk either way, and I think it’s very creative by the NRDC to have found this possibility,” she said.