Hi Folks,

This morning, Evergreen released a new memo: How The Climate Movement Can Use the End of Chevron to Close Pollution Loopholes. Check it out on Linkedin here! You may have also seen it in Politico’s Morning Energy today. 

When the Supreme Court handed the fossil-backed Koch network a huge win last month by overturning the Chevron Doctrine, it made it much easier for right-wing judges to blow past agency experts and overturn environmental, public health, and climate standards. 

Our new memo offers a new hopeful legal perspective. The Court’s majority has also opened the door for the climate movement to go after decades of agency doctrines and loopholes designed to benefit corporate polluters. In their rush to grant Big Oil the power to dismantle the regulatory state, they failed to consider how much the existing regulatory landscape has been shaped to water down enforcement of our most important environmental laws to the benefit of the fossil fuel industry. If the Court will no longer defer to agency interpretation of these statutes, the climate movement must stand ready to go after every agency interpretation that has let the industry off the hook.

The memo offers next steps in our post-Chevron world. We can take advantage of the Court’s newly-created legal doctrines to go after the fossil fuel industry’s favorite loopholes and in the long term, build power to implement necessary reforms to correct the court. Read more in the full memo here. 

You can also read our recent explainer on the Chevron decision and our short form video.

Thank you and, as always, please do not hesitate to reach out with any thoughts or questions.

Best,

Hannah