Federal Climate Policy’s Demolition and Reconstruction, with Sean Donahue

As part of the 2026 Hot Topics in Environmental Law Summer Lecture Series, VLGS summer faculty and environmental law expert @Sean Donahue, a partner at Donahue, Goldberg, Herzog and Davidson, discusses federal environmental policy under the second Trump administration. In this podcast replay of his lecture, “Federal Climate Policy: Demolition and Reconstruction,” he provides a history of the profound changes in environmental legislation and policy over the past decade, contrasts the current Trump administration's policy efforts with those of the first Trump administration, and examines the ongoing demolition of climate policy at the federal level. He also discusses possible policy directions for environmental progress despite these challenges.