Lisa Heinzerling
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has appointed Georgetown law professor Lisa Heinzerling to be her chief advisor on climate change. Heinzerling was editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law Review and clerked for Judge Richard Posner. She co- authored Priceless, a critique of cost benefit analysis, and also wrote the lead brief for the plaintiffs in Massachusetts v. EPA, the Supreme Court opinion on climate change. This is a welcome appointment from the point of view of environmentalists.
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January 26, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Cass Sunstein’s appointment to OMB/OIRA is encountering skepticism « Environment & Law
[...] extremely low values to activities that will happen in the far future, among other reasons. As Dan also notes, it appears that Prof. Lisa Heinzerling of Georgetown, perhaps the most incisive, comprehensive, [...]
January 29, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Eric Gruis
The appointment makes a lot of sense, as Heinzerling and the new administration appear to have been very much on the same page for some time. I invite you to check out the article we posted on Tuesday on GlobalClimateLaw.com, noting the striking similarities between the suggested action items in Heinzerling’s Michigan Law Review article (“A Climate Agenda for the New President”) from 2008, and the actions taken by the Obama administration in his first week in office.
April 7, 2009 at 4:03 am
An Environmental Brain Drain to D.C. - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
[...] Plenty of university types, too, are joining the rush to Washington. Those include John Holdren, a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, who became the president’s top science adviser; Jody Freeman, an environmental law professor at Harvard tapped to become a White House energy and climate counselor; and Lisa Heinzerling, a Georgetown law professor, who is heading to the E.P.A. [...]