UCLA Law Experts Available to Discuss U.S. Supreme Court Greenhouse Gas Emission Case Currently Under Review

--The following UCLA School of Law environmental law experts are available for interviews regarding Massachusetts v. EPA, a U.S. Supreme Court case under review in which 12 states have challenged the Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in new cars.

Sean Hecht
Executive Director, Environmental Law Center and Lecturer in Law
UCLA School of Law
310-794-5272
hecht@law.ucla.edu

Hecht was one of two principal authors of an amicus brief in an
important United States Supreme Court Clean Air Act case in 2000:
Whitman v. American Trucking Assoc., on behalf of nine state Attorneys
General (California, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, New Mexico,
New York, Washington and Vermont). His brief argued that the EPA may
not consider the costs of compliance as a factor in determining
national ambient air quality standards for pollutants, and the high
court adopted that position.

Mary Nichols
Professor of Law-in-Residence, UCLA School of Law
Director, UCLA Institute of the Environment
310-825-5008
mnichols@ioe.ucla.edu

Mary Nichols has long history as an environmentalist. She has
served as California's Secretary of Environmental Affairs and Chair of
the Air Resources Board. In the early 1970s as a newly minted
attorney, she worked for the Center for Law in the Public Interest in
Los Angeles, where she brought the first litigation under the then
recently passed Clean Air Act. Nichols later served from 1993 to 1997
as assistant administrator of air and radiation for the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.

Media contact: To interview Hecht contact him directly. To interview Nichols, call her assistant Bonnie Barclay at 310-794-4908. You may also contact Philip Little at 310-206-1131 or little@law.ucla.edu to reach either of them.