BP Spill Lawyer And Climate Liar Now Holds Top Environmental Law Position At DOJ
Jeffrey Bossert Clark, who represented BP in lawsuits over the nation's largest oil spill and has repeatedly challenged the science of climate change, was confirmed Thursday by the Senate to serve as the nation's top environmental lawyer—a key position for the defense of President Donald Trump's regulatory rollback. Lawmakers voted 52 to 45 to confirm Clark to serve as assistant attorney general for environment and natural resources.
In that post, Clark will steer the federal government's defense of the slew of legal challenges the Trump administration faces over its repeal of environment and climate regulations. He also will be responsible for taking polluters and other environmental lawbreakers to court as head of the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division.
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n 2016, he filed a "friend of the court" brief against the Clean Power Plan, the nation's first limits on carbon emissions from power plants, on behalf of a non-profit group that opposes regulation, Consumers' Research. Environmental groups could use that as a basis to seek Clark's recusal in the inevitable litigation ahead over the Trump administration's Clean Power Plan repeal.
Critics of Clark pointed out that the Senate was confirming someone who had called the science of climate change "contestable" during a week when a Category 4 hurricane hit the Southeast and the IPCC warned that time is running out to head off catastrophic warming. Clark is "exactly the wrong person to be in this job of enforcing regulations to clean up our environment," said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) the minority whip.
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