Litigation: CEI outlines Trump options to defeat advocates' GHG lawsuits

January 12, 2017
President-elect Donald Trump has multiple options to defeat potential lawsuits in the coming months and years from environmentalists to preserve Obama-era greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations that the new administration is expected to target, according to an analysis by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free-market think tank. In a Jan. 9 blog post , CEI's William Yeatman outlines several strategies for the Trump administration to counter environmentalists' legal actions to preserve and enforce regulations such as GHG limits for new...


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