Experts in environmental law assert that recent regulatory changes under the Trump administration could undo significant advancements in climate change initiatives. Richard Lazarus from Harvard Law emphasizes the drastic nature of these changes, likening them to a "nuclear explosion" targeting climate programs. The EPA's newly outlined roadmap of 31 steps aims to alter regulations concerning climate change, power plants, and emissions among others. This shift indicates not merely a regulatory debate but a fundamental challenge to the necessity of regulation, worrying many experts on climate issues.
Richard Lazarus, Harvard Law School's Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law, said the late U.S. Sen. John McCain described the first Trump administration's approach to cutting government programs as using a 'meat cleaver' rather than a scalpel.
Carrie Jenks, executive director of HLS' Environmental and Energy Law Program, agreed, saying that in mid-March the EPA laid out a roadmap of 31 steps it would take, targeting issues including climate change-related regulation.
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