CleanLaw

About CleanLaw

The Harvard Law School Environmental & Energy Law Program influences policy discussions about environmental, climate, and energy issues. EELP offers robust legal analysis and practical governance solutions that will move these discussions forward.

Publisher

HLS Environmental & Energy Law Program

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Apr 2018

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

6 of 119 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep 119 — Corporate Climate Targets Project Tracks Commitments and Actions on GHG Emissions

   Harvard Law professor Jody Freeman interviews Harvard Business School professor Mike Toffel and Harvard Kennedy School professor Joe Aldy about their new tool tracking corporate climate commitments and emissions trends.

2. 

   1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   EP 118 — Powering AI and the Energy Transition: Why Permitting Reform Matters

   Harvard Law School Professor Jody Freeman and Harvard Business School Professor Mike Toffel interview Nat Keohane about accelerating clean energy deployment and transmission through permitting reform amidst surging electricity demand.

3. 

   22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep 117 — Forest Service Proposes to Remove Protections from Roadless Areas

   Sarah Dewey interviews Andy Mergen and Ben Goldfarb about the Forest Service's proposal to remove roadless area protections and its ecological implications.

Inside a recent episode

Ep 119 — Corporate Climate Targets Project Tracks Commitments and Actions on GHG Emissions

Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Mike, can I ask you what drew you to it? And you have a background in this in your own work at HBS. Yeah. So my research has long been about the motivations of companies to engage in beyond compliance behavior. That's both on the environmental front and also in labor management. So, for example, in the labor side, we're looking at companies that set up codes of conduct for their global supply chain that they then ask their suppliers to adhere to in regimes where they don't have a regulatory enforcement mechanism that's reliable. And so instead, they send out either their own staff or third-party auditors to go inspect to see are they actually adhering to these standards, which are loosely based on UN or developed country safety standards. […]

Who has been a guest on CleanLaw

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Mike Toffel
• Joe Aldy
• Nat Keohane
• Andy Mergen
• Ben Goldfarb

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

32 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

14 ratings

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Books guests

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