Legal Director
Jason A. Schwartz is the legal director at Policy Integrity and has taught the Regulatory Policy Clinic and the Advanced Regulatory Policy Clinic at NYU School of Law. Schwartz’s work at Policy Integrity focuses on climate change, administrative law and the regulatory process, cost-benefit analysis, and job impact analysis. He has twice been chosen as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States, preparing reports and draft recommendations for best agency practices on petitions for rulemaking and marketable permits.
Schwartz first joined Policy Integrity with the inaugural class of fellows in 2008. Previously, as an associate with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Schwartz provided strategic counsel to municipalities and foreign governments in their pursuit of appropriations, favorable international trade policies, and homeland security assistance from the federal government. Schwartz graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law where he was an articles editor for the NYU Environmental Law Journal.
Bar and Court Admissions: State Bar of Virginia, State Bar of Colorado (pending) | U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Tenth and D.C. Circuits; Supreme Court of the United States; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second Circuit (pending); District of Colorado (pending)
He can be reached at jason.schwartz@nyu.edu.
Reports
The Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases and State Policy — October 2017
Muddying the Waters — September 2017
Strengthening Regulatory Review — November 2016
Legal Pathways to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under Section 115 of the Clean Air Act — January 2016
Foreign Action, Domestic Windfall:The U.S. Economy Stands to Gain Trillions from Foreign Climate Action — November 2015
The Regulatory Red Herring: The Role of Job Impact Analyses in Environmental Policy Debates — April 2012
Regulatory Report: 2011 Heavy-Duty Trucks Rule — February 2011
52 Experiments with Regulatory Review: The Political and Economic Inputs into State Rulemaking — November 2010
Residual Risks: The Unseen Costs of Using Dirty Oil in New York City Boilers — January 2010
The Road Ahead: EPA’s Options and Obligations for Regulating Greenhouse Gases — April 2009
The Price of Neglect: The Hidden Environmental and Public Health Costs of Bad Economics — November 2008
Policy Briefs
The Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases and State Policy: A Frequently Asked Questions Guide — October 2017
Muddying the Waters: How the Trump administration is obscuring the value of wetlands protection from the Clean Water Rule — September 2017
Regulating Greenhouse Gas Pollution from Existing Power Plants: The State of the Debate — May 2014
Shifting Gears: A New Approach to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Transportation Sector — April 2014
Peak Efficiency: How Regulating Electricity Demand Could Save Lives in New York City — October 2012
More Residual Risks: An Update on New York City Boilers — May 2010
Flooding the Market: The Distributional Consequences of the NFIP — April 2010
Economists and Climate Change: Consensus and Open Questions — November 2009
The Other Side of the Coin: The Economic Benefits of Climate Legislation — September 2009
Academic Articles
The Social Cost of Carbon: A Global Imperative – Review of Environmental Economics and Policy — March 2017
Think Global: International Reciprocity as Justification for a Global Social Cost of Carbon — August 2016
Next Steps to Reform the Regulations Governing Offshore Oil and Gas Planning and Leasing — June 2016
Legal Pathways to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under Section 115 of the Clean Air Act — January 2016
Prevailing Academic View on Compliance Flexibility under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act — July 2011
‘Whose Woods These Are I Think I Know’: How Kyoto May Change Who Controls Biodiversity — N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal, 2006
Op-Eds
Regulating Marketable Permits — The Regulatory Review, March 8, 2018
The mathematics of life-saving regulation — The Hill, April 2015
EPA and Global Carbon: Can You Have it Both Ways? – Common Resources — March 2013
EPA and Global Carbon: Hiding in Plain Sight – Common Resources — March 2013
EPA and Global Carbon: A Debate – Common Resources — February 2013
Unbalanced Retrospective Regulatory Review — RegBlog, July 2012
Carbon Cutting Stateside — Environmental Protection, March 2010
EPA’s Endangerment Finding – Mealey’s Pollution Liability Report — February 2010
Book Chapters
Regulating Regulations: Do Impact Assessment Requirements Promote Trade Objectives? – Kingsbury, Benedict et al., Megaregulation Markets, Contestation: the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Forthcoming
Handbook of Regulatory Impact Assessment — April 2016
Analysis to Inform Public Discourse on Jobs and Regulation – Chapter in Coglianese, Cary et al., eds., Does Regulation Kill Jobs? — 2013
