For President Biden and his allies, climate change—now called a “climate crisis”—has grown from being a widely accepted, incredibly important public policy challenge into a mantra in support of a fundamental transformation of our economy from top to bottom. They talk often of a coordinated climate agenda that includes deploying the full capacity of federal agencies in partnership with state and local governments. Much of this agenda will be fought out in the halls of Congress, international settings, and the ballot box. But that hasn’t stopped an alliance of local officials, trial lawyers and activists from running to court, in hopes of convincing individual judges to impose their preferred climate policies.
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