President Trump this week directed 10 federal agencies — including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Energy Department and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission — to implement a novel procedure to scrap a wide array of longstanding […]
Tag: Law and Legislation
Trump Threatens Climate Policies in the States
First, the Trump administration moved to dismantle federal climate regulations. Now it has launched an assault on efforts at the state and local levels, where many leaders are still working to try to avoid the […]
Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Legal Rationale for Tariffs on China
The New Civil Liberties Alliance — a nonprofit group that describes itself as battling “violations by the administrative state” — sued the federal government on Thursday over the means by which it imposed steep new […]
She Inspired Laws to Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable. Now She’s a Target.
Fresh out of law school in 2022, Rachel Rothschild wrote a memo laying out the legal justification for a new strategy to fight climate change: States could force oil and gas companies to pay for […]
E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email
The Biden administration required coal- and oil-burning power plants to greatly reduce emissions of toxic chemicals including mercury, which can harm babies’ brains and cause heart disease in adults. Now, the Trump administration is offering […]