Trump, New York and climate change
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President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order this week targeting NY's Climate Change Superfund Act, saying it is "irreconcilable with my administration’s objective to unleash American energy."...
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President Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting California’s cap-and-trade emissions credit program for unlawfully pre-empting federal law and limiting energy production.
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American energy dominance is threatened when State and local governments seek to regulate energy beyond their constitutional or statutory authorities,” Trump said in the order.
States are increasingly turning to “Climate Superfund” laws as a potential mechanism to offset the growing costs of climate-related disaster
After halting federal attempts to combat global warming, President Trump is now targeting efforts by states to reduce greenhouse gases, setting up a legal clash.
With the State budget late once again, Blair Horner, Senior Policy Advisor at NYPIRG, joined Power & Politics this week.
For many California residents, the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year were the latest and most searing example of the devastating effects of climate change. Some estimates have pegged the damages and economic losses from the fires at more than $250 billion.
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The Perversity and Unconstitutionality of Climate Superfund Laws: When Political Myopia Reigns SupremeThe unconstitutionality of climate superfund laws shows that they are more the product of political myopia than an attempt to help the environment. Money grabs by politicians and ideological interest groups are nothing new,
Oregon legislators are working on a bill that would make fossil fuel companies pay for the damages and economic losses suffered by local taxpayers from extreme weather disasters in the state.
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