On March 17, ALI Director Richard L. Revesz sat at the same Congressional hearing table with Harvard Law School Professor Laurence H. Tribe as both men testified before the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy and Power. But while Director Revesz, a leading environmental law scholar, testified in defense of President Obama’s signature climate change initiative — the Clean Power Plan — Professor Tribe set out to attack it, arguing that it is unconstitutional.
Now, in a March 26 OpEd in the New York Times, Director Revesz offers a critique of Professor Tribe’s arguments, contending that his theories that the law would run afoul of the Fifth and Tenth Amendments are “far-fetched” and inconsistent with settled law.
Read the OpEd, headlined An Obama Friend Turns Foe on Coal.
Watch the March 17 hearing or read the witness testimony at the Energy & Commerce Committee website.