Selin in New Scientist on Trump’s Climate Shake Up
Henrik Selin, Director of Curricular Innovation and Initiatives and Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed about President Donald Trump’s decision to repeal President Obama’s climate and water policies on his first day in office.
Selin was quoted in a January 23, 2017 article in New Scientist entitled “Trump Ditched Obama’s Climate and Water Policies on First Day.”
From the text of the article:
The new White House webpage outlines plans to exploit untapped shale, oil and natural gas reserves on federal land and revive the US coal industry. It also says Trump will “refocus the EPA on its essential mission of protecting our air and water”, which suggests it will abandon its role in regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
That may not prove simple. A Supreme Court ruling established that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and the EPA must therefore address it under the Clean Air Act. “The Trump administration is legally obligated to do something and if they don’t there will be litigation and lawsuits,” says Henrik Selin, an environment policy researcher at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University.
You can read the entire article here.
Henrik Selin conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. His most recent book is EU and Environmental Governance, by Routledge Press, and is also the author of Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management by MIT Press. Learn more about him here.