In this week’s Pennsylvania Law Weekly and Legal Intelligencer, I write about the motivations behind EPA’s potential delay of issuing a final rule that would limit carbon emissions from new power plants. The agency appears to be playing a high stakes game of political chicken that could provoke congress to pass standalone cap-and-trade legislation. Read Is EPA Playing Chicken With… Continue Reading
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Subscribe to Politics RSS FeedPolar Bears and Climate Change — A Second Look
Posted in Climate Change, Policy, PoliticsThe United States District Court for the District of Columbia reconsiders the Department of Interior’s decision, which attributed the disappearance of sea ice to global climate change, to list polar bears as “endangered” under the Endangered Species Act.