Seeking legal clarity amid the noise over Trump’s attack on “endangerment”
TODAY at 3 pm Eastern LIVE - a pop-up discussion of the effort by Trump to repeal EPA's landmark "endangerment" finding on greenhouse gases
Post-show updates - I encourage you to watch this brisk analysis of Team Trump’s assault on EPA’s 2009 “endangerment” finding - the foundation of US regulatory approaches to climate policy.
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My guests were
Jonathan Adler, a law professor and commentator with a libertarian orientation who’s deeply dug in at the intersection of law and federal climate policy. Read his analysis of Trump’s endangerment strategy:
Why Trying to Undo the Endangerment Finding Is A High-Risk (and Low-Reward) Deregulatory Strategy
Two articles by Jonathan Adler on Trump's deregulatory strategy
Jean Chemnick, a longtime climate journalist at E&E News/ Politico. Read her excellent coverage:
Sean Donahue, a longtime lawyer representing the Environmental Defense Fund in the litigation that has begun over the endangerment action.
Great conversation.
Andy- You are probably aware, and as predicted, lawsuits have already been filed challenging this rollback. In DC court a suit was brought by a consortium- the American Public Health Association, the American Lung Association, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and 11 other public health and environmental organizations. The lawsuit was filed by green legal organizations Clean Air Task Force and Earthjustice and it names the EPA and the agency’s administrator, Lee Zeldin, as defendants. Additionally Our Children's Trust has filed on behalf of 18 young people. I feel that this is the start of several suits and will take us deeper into "regulation by litigation" which at the end of the day is an inefficient and adversarial way to conduct stewardship of our natural resource, people and planet. Sad to see this happen.