Administrative/Regulatory
Dec. 1, 2016
An environmental opening under Trump
Given Trump's platform, does any environmental hope remain? Counterintuitively, our recent political history suggests that the answer is "yes." By Claudia Polsky
Claudia Polsky
Environmental Law Clinic UC Berkeley School of LawEmail: cpolsky@law.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley SOL; Berkeley CA
On Election Day 2016, planet-conscious millennials - who came of political age under President Barack Obama, and who rank climate change among the top three issues determining their vote - descended into an unfamiliar nightmare. They saw President-elect Donald Trump dismissing climate change as "an expensive hoax," vowing to extract and combust all forms of fossil fuel without regard to the atmosphere's heat-assimilative capacity...
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