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How The Biden Administration Can Empower Local Climate Action, Sarah Fox
How The Biden Administration Can Empower Local Climate Action, Sarah Fox
College of Law Faculty Publications
The Biden Administration entered office amid a flurry of executive orders and announcements, no small part of which focused on environmental actions. More specifically, the Administration entered with the stated intention of addressing the climate crisis through a variety of measures that include executive action as well as possible federal legislation. For the federal government to be focused on climate action for the first time in four years is an unequivocally positive change. However, the Biden Administration will certainly encounter many roadblocks to fast action, including delays inherent in regulatory rollback and rulemakings, political hurdles and expenditure of political capital …
Why Localizing Climate Federalism Matters (Even) During A Biden Administration, Sarah Fox
Why Localizing Climate Federalism Matters (Even) During A Biden Administration, Sarah Fox
College of Law Faculty Publications
After four years of a Trump Administration hostile to action on climate change, the United States is now under the leadership of the Biden Administration, which acknowledges the scope of the global climate crisis and has a number of proposals for addressing it. For now, the Democratic par-ty also controls both houses of Congress. All of that is good news for progress on climate change. It does not mean, however, that the federal government will be immediately poised to solve the climate challenge. First of all, the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to continue to occupy a tremendous share of federal …