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“It really kind of wipes clean what has been the major domestic vehicle for addressing climate change in this country,” University of Washington law professor Sanne Knudsen said.
A Trump administration move Thursday to axe the centerpiece of federal climate policy jeopardizes state-level efforts to control pollution from motor vehicles as well. Sanne Knudsen, professor of environmental law at the UW, is quoted. This story was republished on OPB.
President Trump this morning announced the latest in his administration's push to stop the country from fighting climate change. His administration has overturned an Obama-era Government finding that the gases that cause climate change are a danger to human welfare. Sanne Knudsen, professor of environmental law at the UW, is interviewed.
In a recent article, Sanne Knudsen of University of Washington School of Law explores how the overlapping of administrative and environmental law can lead to judicial outcomes that “disregard” public-interest values. In addition to analyzing Supreme Court decisions, Knudsen argues that judicial-review doctrines should have built-in mechanisms to prevent the destabilization of environmental statutes.
Legal experts view Loper Bright as a major transfer of power from agencies to judges. “You have incredibly technical areas of law for which the U.S. Supreme Court in Loper Bright has now paved a path for individual judges, or panels of three judges, to make decisions without having the technical expertise,” said Sanne Knudsen, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, whose scholarship on deference doctrines has been cited by the Supreme Court.
The broader context of the decision, said Sanne Knudsen, professor of environmental law at the University of Washington, is that the Supreme Court seems to be on a deregulatory trend. She pointed to two separate cases challenging the Clean Water Act’s interpretation of the “waters of the United States.”
The broader context of today’s decision, said Sanne Knudsen, professor of environmental law at the University of Washington, is that the Supreme Court seems to be on a deregulatory trend. She pointed to two separate cases challenging the Clean Water Act’s interpretation of the “waters of the United States.”
Experts describe ways to turn down the volume, from earbuds to smartphone apps that detect harmful noise levels. Sanne Knudsen, professor of environmental law at the UW, is quoted.
It’s the first lawsuit demanding the EPA do what Congress mandated, said Knudsen, an attorney with the Regulatory Environmental Law & Police Clinic at University of Washington School of Law in Seattle.
Because the mandatory 60-day window for advance notice of an upcoming lawsuit expired last week, Quiet Communities is now free to bring litigation at any time. In an email, Sanne Knudsen, a University of Washington law professor representing the group, said that EPA never replied to its March letter. Without specifying a date, Knudsen indicated that a suit is in the works over the agency’s “total failure to carry out the commands of the Noise Control Act for forty years.”
Sanne Knudsen, the Stimson Bullitt Endowed Professor of Environmental Law, answers questions about summary judgment.
Faculty organized an expert panel to discuss topics including developments in the federal courts and the Supreme Court, LGBTQ+ rights, environmental policy and immigration.
