Federal Courts Help Biden Quickly Dismantle Trump’s Climate and Environmental Legacy
Trump’s success in appointing conservative judges has so far been no match for his team s own ineptitude, the skill of the environmental bar and industry’s desire to work with the new administration.
March 9, 2021
President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House on March 6, 2021, in Washington D.C. Credit: Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post via Getty Images
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As the Biden administration begins the daunting job of rebuilding U.S. climate policy, it has gotten help from an unexpected, and perhaps unlikely, source the federal courts.
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Signed out. Apita retired late last year after years more than two decades of service. Photo | Ismail Kezaala
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Service. Apita joined the Ministry of Education and Sports in 1994 as an assistant secretary and rose through the ranks, retiring at the level of Commissioner for Physical Education and Sports.
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His retirement last November after clocking was similar to how he did his job – quiet and measured.
“I followed the government regulations by not staying an extra day,” Apita, who turned 60 on November 23, 2020, says. The official retirement age for public servants in Uganda is 60.
Apita joined the Ministry of Education and Sports in 1994 as an assistant secretary and rose through the ranks, retiring at the level of Commissioner for Physical Education and Sports.
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David Hayes, special assistant to the president for climate policy, has called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reform its flood standards. James Berglie/Zuma Press/Newscom
A top White House climate adviser denounced fiscally irresponsible repeat spending on disaster after disaster and said the government should improve the nation s resilience to floods and other perils.
David Hayes, President Biden s special assistant for climate policy, says in a new article that the Federal Emergency Management Agency should encourage states to develop climate resilience plans to help them incorporate risks from warming into disaster recovery.
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How the Supreme Court could upend Biden’s green agenda Source: By Jeremy P. Jacobs and Pamela King, E&E News reporters • Posted: Wednesday, January 13, 2021
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. The incoming administration will need to think carefully about how to defend its environmental policies before a federal court system that President Trump has filled with conservative judges. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (graphic); Gage Skidmore/Flickr (Biden and Harris)
Federal courts could stand in the way of President-elect Joe Biden’s efforts to undo the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks and stymie any efforts to take bold climate action, legal experts say.