Corporate Climate Change, Expose Series-Intro: Leaked memos show Supreme Court ignored climate dangers in Obama regs fight P7
By Alex Guillén
04/20/2026 06:48 AM EDT
Source: E & E News by Politico
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Rulemakings stripping all climate regulation from the vehicle and power sectors have not calculated the climate costs of those actions after Trump ordered agencies to stop assigning a dollar figure to climate pollution. EPA has also avoided monetizing the public health costs of its rollbacks, arguing the science is too tenuous to assign a specific dollar figure. The agency still touts specific industry savings from rules it repeals or eases.
That shift isn’t coincidental, argued Freeman of Harvard.
“I think that the Trump administration has a spidey sense that there might well be some sympathy on the court for this point of view, and they also know that the court has really had a target on EPA for some time,” she said.
In 2016, Roberts appeared particularly peeved at the Obama EPA because the agency had in a sense shrugged off a 2015 ruling that faulted EPA’s rulemaking process for the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. Utilities had already spent billions of dollars to comply with the rule, EPA officials said at the time, a remark many Republicans saw as gloating. (The Obama-era MATS rule is still in effect after EPA corrected the error flagged by the Supreme Court.)
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