E5: Region Watch, Legal Challenges to the Congestion Pricing Program, ft Kate Slevin & Brian Farkas

12/09/2025 50 min
E5: Region Watch, Legal Challenges to the Congestion Pricing Program, ft Kate Slevin & Brian Farkas

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Episode Synopsis

Host, Dr. Sam Bowden Akbari, kicks off the second installment of Region Watch, RPA's series looking at how unprecedented federal actions threaten our regional planning priorities. Sam is joined by RPA's EVP, Kate Slevin and Brian Farkas, partner at the law firm Arendt Fox Schiff, where they dive into the legal challenges to the nation's first ever congestion pricing program.

For a full list of the litigation seeking to upend the program, please visit https://rpa.org/news/lab/status-of-new-york-congestion-pricing-litigation

Special thanks to Anushka Limaye and Eric A. Goldstein of the Natural Resources Defense Council for their invaluable assistance in crafting this compilation.