C. Boyden Gray has been actively involved in environmental law and energy policy for over three decades. During the early 1980s, Gray served as Counsel to the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief, and in that capacity he was involved in the phaseout of leaded gasoline. During the 1990s, as White House Counsel for President George H.W. Bush, Gray was instrumental in the enactment of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and the Energy Policy Act of 1992. Gray played a key role in framing the Clean Air Act’s Acid Rain Program, a ground-breaking market-based approach to environmental regulation. He teaches a course on Environmental and Energy Law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. Today, Boyden Gray and Associates represents clients in the energy, agriculture, and non-profit sectors on environmental law and regulatory matters before the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies, the White House, Congress, and the courts. The firm’s environmental law practice includes automotive and fuel regulation, agriculture law, climate law, and air quality regulation.
Litigation:
- Boyden Gray & Associates Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief in West Virginia v. EPA, No. 20-1530
- Opening Brief for Petitioners Urban Air Initiative, et al. in American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers v. EPA, No. 19-1124.
- Brief of Amici Curiae Kansas et al., Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, No. 12-1146+ (S. Ct. Dec. 16, 2013)
Regulatory Comments:
- Comments Submitted on Behalf of Urban Air Initiative and Consumers’ Research Concerning the Environmental Protection Agency’s Reconsideration of a Previous Withdrawal of a Waiver of Preemption, EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0257 (July 6, 2021)
- Comments on Behalf of Urban Air Initiative Concerning the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Preemption, File No. NHTSA-2021-0030
- Comments of Illinois Corn Growers et al. on EPA’s Vehicle Test Procedure Adjustments for Tier 3 Test Fuel, No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2016-0604
- Comments of Urban Air Initiative et al. on EPA’s Proposed Modifications to Fuel Regulations To Provide Flexibility for E15 (Apr. 29, 2019)
- Comments of Urban Air Initiative on EPA’s ANPRM on Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Costs and Benefits in the Rulemaking Process (Aug. 13, 2018)
- Comments of Urban Air Initiative et al., on the EPA Regulatory Reform Task Force’s Evaluation of Existing Regulations (May 15, 2017)
Commentary:
- GRAY: No One Falls for Biden’s Gas-Price Blame Game, Wall Street Journal, November 23, 2021
- GRAY: American Energy, Chinese Ambition, and Climate Realism, American Affairs, November 19, 2021
- GRAY: When it comes to climate the SEC should quit pretending to be the EPA, The Washington Post, August 15, 2021
- GRAY: Update on Climate Change Litigation, Federalist Society Teleforum (Oct. 8, 2019)
- GUSTAFSON: Hearing on Cost-Benefit Analysis and EPA’s Mercury Rule Before the H. Comm. on Energy & Environment, Subcomm. on Oversight & Investigations, 116th Cong. (2019)