STATE CLIMATE POLICIES face scrutiny under one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders, but the effective impact could be limited.
- Trump tasked the attorney general and federal agency heads with taking stock of state and local climate laws, regulations, and lawsuits that might impede energy deployment, violate the Constitution, or usurp the government’s authority. The AG is supposed to “take all appropriate action to stop the enforcement” of state laws deemed illegal.
- New York and Vermont’s climate Superfund laws, which seek to charge fossil fuel companies billions for their carbon emissions, and California’s program to cap greenhouse gas emissions, were ...