James Temple has a new story at MIT Technology Review on the actions that Scott Pruitt, President Trump’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, could take to reverse progress on climate policy. Thanks to James for taking the time to explore the complex administrative processes involved in revoking or modifying climate rules under the Clean Air Act and for featuring Near Zero’s Danny Cullenward in the resulting article:
None of the administration’s policy overhauls could simply sail through, however. Undoing the federal fuel economy standards and withdrawing the California waiver would each require a protracted process of public notice and comment, says Danny Cullenward, an energy economist and lawyer with the Near Zero program at the Carnegie Institution.
Read the full article, “How Much Damage Could Scott Pruitt Really Do at EPA?“, on the MIT Technology Review site.