It’s been a huge week for former President Donald Trump’s allies in the energy and environment world.
Conservatives were already gleeful after Thursday’s presidential debate prompted heartburn among Democrats wondering whether President Joe Biden is fit for his reelection bid.
Then on Friday, the Trump-stacked Supreme Court obliterated the Chevron legal doctrine that’s long been reviled by conservatives. And a pair of high court rulings Monday on presidential immunity and on legal challenges to regulations handed more victories to Trump and his Republican and industry allies.
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The day the ruling came down, Gunasekara said she got “all sorts of emails with extra exclamation points.”
“It’s a very big deal and it opens the gate for reconsideration of a lot of environmental decisions and rules and that — coupled with President Trump’s continued improvement in the polls — has people really excited with an opportunity to change the trajectory of the administrative state from administrative growth to being pared back and level set,” she said.
“It was a very good week,” said Tom Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research who served on Trump’s 2016 presidential transition team.
But while conservatives are “celebrating their wins” for the moment, “this isn’t the end — this is just the beginning,” Pyle said. “There’s a lot of work to do,” but “there’s potential for a paradigm shift and a restoration between the checks and balances of the three branches” of government.