Trump Takes Aim At A Centerpiece Of Obama's Environmental Legacy

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Date

March 28, 2017

News Type

Media Highlight

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NPR's The Two-Way

"'Once you have something like the Clean Power Plan — a final rule-making — then that can't be withdrawn using any process other than the one that was used to create it,' says Nathan Richardson, a visiting fellow at Resources for the Future."

Topics

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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