Gorsuch and the Chevron Deference

Lindsey Mattila (CMC ’17) In 1984, the Supreme Court established one of the most influential principles in administrative law in the Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. A few years prior, Congress passed the Clean Air Act, requiring states that had not yet met the lower pollution rate to use a permit…

The Conservative Case for Carbon Dividends

By James Dail PO ’20 A new faction has emerged within the Republican Party that has put its unique stamp on a solution for climate change. Former US Secretary of State James Baker, combined with seven other politicians and economists, proposed a carbon tax that would replace the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, which forced…