Clark Mindock

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Climate law & insurance regs reporter. •Insurance writing is here: https://www.insuranceinsiderus.com/clark-mindock •My Substack “Landmark” covers climate law: www.landmark.earth Formerly Reuters, Law360, The Independent, etc.

Saint Nicolas was a Greek guy born in what is today's Turkey. So Santa Claus or Saint Nicolas was not Black.
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What was less clear heading into the announcement was exactly what this proposed repeal would look like. More importantly, it was unclear how exactly the agency would try to justify a move that basically contradicts the vast majority of climate science that points to greenhouse gases as the cause of climate change, and climate change as a deadly and costly growing phenomenon.
Those questions have finally been answered, at least somewhat: The proposal largely dodges questions of science and focuses on the legal argument that Congress never gave the EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The argument relies heavily on interpretations of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that have together already restricted the powers of administrative agencies like the EPA.
“It’s hard to avoid the thought that EPA and the administration are beckoning to the court to make new law here,” Joe Goffman, a former assistant administrator in the EPA’s office of air and radiation during the Biden administration, told Landmark.

The lawsuit comes just short of two weeks after devastating floods hit Texas communities, and killed over 100 people.