DOJ Suing States to Thwart Climate Action
The DOJ’s environmental division is “bringing more litigation against states than we ever have before,” head Adam Gustafson said in an exclusive interview with Stephen Lee.
The reason for the shift: “because the states are doing things that they’ve never done before,” Gustafson said.
The Environment and Natural Resources Division’s offensive cases are mostly efforts to stop climate action by blue states—New York and Vermont’s Superfund laws, a California law barring certain oil and gas projects, and Minnesota targeting greenhouse gas emissions.
ENRD is still involved with defensive cases such ...