The Most Damaging Part of Trump's Climate Change Order Is the Message It Sends

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Date

March 29, 2017

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Media Highlight

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Vox

"It is that message, its intangible and 'soft power' effects, that is the most significant part of this EO — more significant, arguably, than its substance. (Nathan Richardson of Resources for the Future has a good piece on this.)"

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Clean Air Act Regulations

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Nathan Richardson

University Fellow

Nathan Richardson is an attorney and university fellow at RFF, where he specializes in environmental law and economics.

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