President Donald Trump spent 2025 dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulatory architecture in an effort to prevent future administrations from reining in greenhouse gas pollution. Next year will begin to show if it’s a winning strategy.
“I’m going to go out on a limb and say that there’ll be a lot of litigation,” Bracewell’s Jeff Holmstead told E&E News.
An ultimate decision by the Supreme Court could take Clean Air Act climate regulation off the table for good, unless Congress grants EPA new authorities.
“[N]o future EPA would be able to regulate [carbon dioxide] or anything else that does not endanger health or welfare when people or things are exposed to it,” said Holmstead.
