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that's it Obama is no longer president you might cry you might be happy but let's think for a moment about the environmental legacy he leaves behind at home Obama worked to lower emissions of greenhouse gases from cars and power plants his boosted renewable energy and set new records for protected public land on the international level he has spearheaded climate deals like the Paris Accord an agreement among nearly 200 nations to the work carbon emissions in the fight against climate change the new presidents of the United States Donald Trump has vowed to dismantle all that but environmental groups are preparing to fight back for the next four years when it comes to climate policy the place to watch is in the White House it's the courtroom the question really the area of last resort to a lot of environmental groups in a lot of states that have supported the Obama administration agenda a lot of environmental groups are gearing up to fight in any data climate action by the transition already people are fully staffed up and fully ready to hit the green go button on litigation trans record on the environment already isn't great I mean is that climate change is a hoax and his action so far dumb bode well he nominated Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson a secretary of state his pick for the head of the Environmental Protection Agency is caught Pruitt a man who sued the EPA over environmental regulations his transition team also sent a questionnaire to the Department of Energy asking for the names of employees worked on climate policy that's really intimidating even if Trump's team leader said the questionnaire was not authorized most importantly Trump vowed to scrap the clean power plan Obama's signature policy to reduce co2 emissions by rolling back the CPP won't be that easy in fact a lot of people are already trying two dozen states and industry groups have sued the EPA arguing that it overstepped its authority under the Clean Air Act if trance EPA tries to hold that lawsuit before a ruling is reached several other states about to sue the administration the EPA has to follow the cleaner act and regulate air pollutants in the US and in 2007 the Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse asses like co2 are air pollutants under that law in 2009 the EPA determined that greenhouse gases like co2 endanger people's health and welfare if Trump CPA declares that greenhouse gas emissions are in dangerous to the public environmental groups with Sue and probably win because I I think it would be really difficult at this stage to argue in a legally defensible manner that there is not endangerment given what we're seeing with the Greenland ice melt Antarctica the more frequent storm or more frequent severe storms i should say precipitation changes throughout many many of which have been connected to human responsibility for co2 and other climate-related mission in short global warming the courts are likely to hear cases on a host of other environmental issues if endangered species aren't protected under the Endangered Species Act environmental groups could sue the government for inaction if Trump decides to undo some of the national monuments named by Obama under the entities act that could also wind up in the courts how the course will rule is difficult to predict Trump will be able to appoint a new Supreme Court justice skewing the balance to the conservative side environmentalists also worry about some 100-plus judicial vacancies that Trump will be able to fill with these appointees the Supreme Court will get a lot of attention but the federal courts pose a much more immediate opportunity a couple of openings are at the Second Circuit which has ruled on water pollution before other openings are in the Ninth Circuit which is important for endangered species cases I think the trump administration can do many damaging things ultimately laws on our site so will win cases if we have to bring them against these robots and we'll also find that they lose in a court of public opinion because the public is in favor of these things not a catch them and it's a wind up in the corner yeah okay spelled the same way as when I was like I think it's wine the veligit is spelled like wind okay