Environmental & Energy,
Constitutional Law
Jun. 2, 2025
The king has clothes, but not all fit: Limits of the Executive in U.S. clean energy policy
The states: can they counter the Trump II attack on climate change law?
Joseph F. C. DiMento
Professor of Law and Urban Planning
University of California, Irvine School of Law
Phone: (949) 309-6472
Email: jdimento@law.uci.edu
Danielle Straus
Danielle Straus, J.D., is a recent graduate of the University of California, Irvine School of Law.
When Donald Trump was president-elect, he promised he would move
quickly to dismantle federal climate change law and policy and target efforts
by the states and municipalities addressing climate change; he met his promise.
As for dismantling this large and growing inventory of law, his promise has yet
to be fulfilled, largely due to numerous obstacles.
Trump's most newsworthy action was restarting the process of withdrawing the United States f...
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