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Cara Horowitz counts on California law after Supreme Court’s climate decisions

Publication: L.A. Times

UCLA Expert: Cara Horowitz: Professor, Luskin School of Public Affairs; Co-Director, UCLA Environmental Law Clinic, Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Co-Executive Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment; Member, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Synopsis: The Supreme Court limited federal influence on power plant greenhouse gases. It’s time for states to use their own authority, said Horowitz.

UCLA News: “Any time federal power to regulate climate change is constrained, state power gets more important,” noted Horowitz. “States have a lot of regulatory power that this Supreme Court’s ruling does not touch.”

Read more at L.A. Times.