by Lesley Clark, Niina H. Farah
E&E News’s EnergyWire
In his first term, Donald Trump took a legal ax to former President Barack Obama’s climate and energy initiatives. He missed his target plenty of times, but environmental groups are girding for a second round.
Court watchers expect the president-elect to try to unwind four years of the Biden administration’s aggressive environmental and energy rules soon after taking office. One of Trump’s first stops on that journey will be in federal court…
Steve Milloy, a lawyer who served on Trump’s EPA transition team in 2016, has said that the president-elect learned important lessons during his first four years in office and that green groups could end up in “litigation traps” aimed at getting cases before the conservative supermajority at the Supreme Court.
“Trump 2.0 will be a little smarter than Trump 1.0,” he said.
