The White House Is Making a $7 Trillion Problem Worse Highlight

Then again, what is law, really? Lately, it’s whatever Trump decides it should be on any given morning. Is he legally allowed to kidnap Venezuela’s president and personally take charge of selling the country’s oil? Who’s to say? Certainly not this Congress or the US courts. Many of the hundreds of climate-harming actions Trump took last year did in fact violate laws passed by Congress, and some courts protested them. But this has mostly delayed the inevitable. The Environmental Protection Agency’s bid to overturn its finding that carbon dioxide emissions endanger public health appears to violate the 1970 Clean Air Act — which also had unanimous bipartisan support — and subsequent court findings. But Trump’s EPA is pressing on, betting it can remake the rules.