Climate Changed
Trump's Words Could Jeopardize His Environmental Rollbacks, Too
- Vows to kill climate rules could suggest preordained outcome
- As with challenges to travel ban, judges may consider intent
Trump's Mysterious Feelings on Global Warming
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President Donald Trump’s words may come back to haunt him in court as he moves to roll back regulations that fight climate change, just as they did when he tried to ban travel from six predominantly Muslim countries.
Environmentalists are scrutinizing Trump’s tweets and the phrasing of presidential orders, looking for evidence that an action is driven by politics or that a review of regulations is being carried out with a specific outcome in mind. That could be used in a lawsuit to argue that the process is a sham and violates federal law governing rulemaking.