Philip Wallach, senior fellow in Governance Studies, discusses EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s plan to rescind the Clean Power Plan, and looks at the future of U.S. climate action policy.
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[On the Global Climate Action Summit] I think that this summit’s been very useful. It’s a demonstration of activism, it’s a demonstration of will, it’s a demonstration of engagement by all sorts of sub-national players, and I think that’s all been tremendously useful. But, it doesn’t fill the gap of the absence of the United States at a national level. The US federal government can drive action all around the entire country, not just state-by-state.