U.S. Supreme Court,
Government,
Environmental & Energy,
Administrative/Regulatory
Feb. 23, 2016
Why the energy plan is a big deal
Earlier this month, the Obama administration suffered the most profound environmental of setback of the president's two terms in office, courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Richard M. Frank
Professor of Environmental Practice
UC Davis School of Law
Richard is director of the California Environmental Law & Policy Center at the UC Davis School of Law.
Earlier this month, the Obama administration suffered the most profound environmental setback of the president's two terms in office, courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court. That stunning legal and policy defeat took the form not of a detailed Supreme Court decision but, rather, a one-paragraph, unsigned procedural order.
The court's Feb. 9 directive halts the Environmental Protection Agency's implementation of its Clean Power Plan, the administration's most sweeping and controversial re...
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