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Richard Revesz, director of the Institute for Policy Integrity, said the early lawsuit and comments received during the EPA’s public comment period will ensure the final rule is legally sound.

Chicago, Philadelphia and Sacramento, Calif.: These are just a few of the cities within the “blast zones” of mile-long trains carrying flammable crude oil across the country. Twenty-five million Americans live in these vulnerable areas; yet it will be years until dangerous tank cars are retrofitted or retired from the rails, based on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s new safety standards.

That is probably healthy given the divisions on the current court, Professor Livermore said. “Burying those sentiments in formalistic writing doesn’t erase the tension,” he said. “It just obscures it. There is something valuable about the crystallizing statement.”

“I don’t think it’s even debatable or a close question that he is not circumventing Congress or abusing executive authority,” says Richard Revesz, a professor and dean emeritus at the New York University School of Law. He testified last month on Capitol Hill about Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which would limit carbon emissions from existing power plants. “Not only is the president not acting inconsistently with the will of Congress, he’s doing something he was mandated to do under existing law.”

The fate of 11,000 American lives each year may hinge on whether the Supreme Court Justices understand that fractions can’t be calculated without knowing the denominator.

But even if his claims don’t help Peabody in federal court, they are undoubtedly useful in the court of public opinion, where sentiment can be swayed by legal arguments, however weak, from a scholar of Professor Tribe’s reputation.

Richard Revesz, director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, assesses the arguments presented and questioning by the justices.

“This is one of the most significant environmental rules in our history,” says Richard Revesz, director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law. “However you look at it, there are going to be winners and losers.”

One of the most prominent defenders of the administration’s position is Richard Revesz, the director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University law school.

Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe and New York University Law professor Richard Revesz traded rhetorical blows over the legality of the U.S. EPA’s proposed carbon dioxide rule before a congressional panel on March 17.