Bloomberg: “Trump’s Week One Ends With a Heap of Climate Rollbacks”
RFF Senior Fellow Alan Krupnick comments on the implications of President Trump’s declaration of an energy emergency.
But the [energy emergency] does have “real impacts,” Krupnick says, because the president is directing federal agencies to tap into emergency powers that can give them more discretion to “disregard or reduce regard for environmental damages” during specific energy-related project reviews, such as for pipelines. If that happens, expect environmental groups to sue.
