@alejandrocamacho.bsky.social's (@law.ucla.edu) scholarship studies the goals, structures, and processes of regulation, with a particular focus on natural resources, pollution control, and land use law. Connect with Camacho: scholars.org/scholar/alej...

Unfortunately, Trump‘s biggest attack on climate action. Fortunately, it’s on shaky scientific and legal grounds.

I’ll need to work on it, I’m a decidedly less serious person than I am in this video

🐻 🌲 In this @legal-planet.org op-ed, @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social of @law.ucla.edu warns that the Trump administration's proposed changes to the #EndangeredSpeciesAct threaten to harm species & habitat protections, with consequences for the government and economy. Read today:

So glad to be a part of this new intellectual and social community!

There really isn’t a reasonable interpretation that would allow this road to be built. It’s a brazen attempt to ignore existing public lands and other law just to build a road, when another road could be built that doesn’t do so.

The Trump administration has resurrected several regulatory changes to the Endangered Species Act. They are "as irresponsible as they are illegal," writes our @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social in a new piece at @legal-planet.org. legal-planet.org/2026/01/26/t...

Alejandro Camacho (@alejandrocamacho.bsky.social) has joined us as a professor of law at @law.ucla.edu! The Emmett Institute keeps growing stronger. Read a Q&A with Camacho about his scholarship and policy-relevant advocacy at @legal-planet.org: legal-planet.org/2026/01/22/a...

Really excited to start this new chapter in my career. UCLA Law is amazing and I look forward to joining its community.

Despite current US government’s immoral and economically idiotic efforts to fight it, it is good news that the world is slowly transitioning towards renewable energy. We need it to be further along, and it easily could be. But at least the world is waking up. The US government will be back someday.

Depressingly true

This is not normal. This is not legal. You do not have to be an attorney to know this is dangerous.

California is a place where people are having reasonable debates about climate policy. It’s not easy stuff, adults mostly in good faith are trying to figure it out. If only something even remotely similar was happening at the federal level.

Wonky report but real cause for optimism globally, despite Trump’s completely regressive and idiotic policies on energy. Solar and wind outpaced the growth of global electricity demand in the first half of 2025, vaulting renewables toward overtaking coal worldwide for the first time on record.

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This is the moron that is taking down the United States and trying to do likewise to the world. We are under the death grip of the most idiotic cult in the history of the world.

Chancellor’s Prof. @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social, in The Hill, reflects on the long history of U.S. environmental law and warns that recent federal actions could represent significant rollback of protections, with lasting consequences for public health & the environment. thehill.com/opinion/ener...

Unfortunately, Trump has remarkably already won the title of worst president on the environment in the history of the US.

For those struggling with inaction, perhaps this might help.

The Trump admin is blatantly ignoring the overwhelming science to be an international pariah & rewrite reality. No independent moral scientist considers this factually & morally defensible. It’ll be challenged in court & likely will lose. Even the first Trump admin thought this was beyond the pale.

Fox News conservatives reclaiming Nazi as a badge of honor. Glad to see some rare accuracy on that network.

A real post by Trump’s Interior Department using taxpayer dollars for propaganda. It’s horrifying and hilarious. Horrifying because it’s the best evidence we live in an Idiocracy. Hilarious because it looks as if done by a fifth grader and uses a gay anthem promoting helping underprivileged men.

I guess I agree with Elon on something. This would be suicidal. And it’s likely to happen. The Republicans are screwing over INDUSTRY ESPECIALLY IN RED STATES in order to make Trump happy for 5 minutes. BTW the US Chamber of Commerce has said it’s stupid and dont do it also.

A new op-ed by Board Member @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social and Member Scholar Rob Glicksman pushes back on attacks against NEPA. This bedrock law makes government decisions smarter and more democratic, despite what critics say. #ProtectNEPA therevelator.org/nepa-lies-mi...

Here’s a short opinion piece I co-wrote on the repeated mistakes or lies by Republicans and Democrats about the purposes and effectiveness of our bedrock environmental law.

I guess this is one area that Trump will not seek to impose tariffs. But who knows?

Today Trump is going to try to get rid of laws that prevent power plants and others from spewing toxic pollutants into the air. Does anyone except greedy polluters want this? It is immoral and illegal. These actions will be challenged in court, and any reasonable legal mind would find them invalid.

This is both stupid economically and devastating environmentally. Some people seem to just want to watch the world burn. And I suspect that the companies directly affected by it are too scared to sue despite a strong legal claim about its illegality. heatmap.news/energy/doe-c...

8/ 🔗 Want to learn more or speak out? Join us in our efforts to create a just society and preserve a healthy environment for future generations. progressivereform.org

7/ Bottom line: This decision favors speed over democracy and accountability. And it’s built on a myth that NEPA is the problem. It is not. It’s our best tool to make sure communities, especially those most impacted, have a say in what gets built. #NEPA #ClimateJustice

6/ The Court also gave agencies more wiggle room to do sloppy reviews, setting a lower standard for how deeply they have to analyze a project’s impact.

4/ The justices claimed NEPA causes delays. But there’s zero evidence. Studies show most delays come from a lack of project funding, not environmental review. In fact, many shovel-ready projects got NEPA approvals years ago but sat idle until funding from the Inflation Reduction Act kicked in. 👀

3/ Example: An oil train gets approved without weighing how much drilling will increase or how refining the oil will harm frontline communities. That's now allowed. 😱

2/ The Court ruled that federal agencies only have to consider the direct impacts of a project, not the full ripple effects like climate change or air pollution. That’s a problem.

1/ 🚨 The Supreme Court just issued a major decision on NEPA—the National Environmental Policy Act. It flew under the radar, but the consequences are massive. Here's a quick breakdown from Board Member @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social of @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social 👇

Americans of all stripes need to know that the current administration is not prepared for the next disaster, wherever it occurs, blue state or red state. FEMA, the agency in charge of managing any disasters, is in the midst of its own. lnkd.in/ggEQ483J

This is beyond foolish, in addition to being immoral and unconscionable. It is another clear example of this administration being penny wise and pound foolish. Even if he only cared about “his” voters, or even the bottom line of his oligarch friends, it is stupid. But we all will suffer.

Microsoft drops law firm that made a deal with Trump, engaging a firm that is fighting his executive orders

@annmlipton.bsky.social someone on the board finally has half a brain! Not sure why it took so long

Not especially a fan of Lawrence, but this is spot on.

Professor @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social was quoted in @commondreams.org stating that the Trump administration is “once again disregarding the law, environment, and even market data” in its effort to accelerate fossil fuel project approvals. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...

17 and killing it. He's the next I'm telling you. Vamos River!!

In his first 100 days, Trump declared more national emergencies than any president in modern American history. Even a child can tell they are all contrived. The only national emergency is him.

'An Attempt to Silence the Public's Voice': Trump Moves to Accelerate Oil Project Approvals www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...

There is a climate crisis, no energy crisis.

Trump once again disregarding the law, environment, and even market data. Ignoring environmental laws to approve dirty projects claiming an energy emergency that does not exist. Meanwhile, he's killing massive private wind power projects. Sounds like an emergency to me.