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Reposted by Dan Farber

@progressivereform.bsky.social

If this repeal is upheld, it would be a death sentence for the American people.

Fossil fuel executives will get rich, we will get poorer, the planet will get hotter, and the air we breathe will get worse and worse. We will pay with our lives and lungs.

Hot Take on the Endangerment Repeal - Legal Planet

EPA's Endangerment Finding repeal is a thinly veiled effort to overturn a 2007 Supreme Court case. It doesn't even try to contest the science.

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February 13, 2026 at 7:20 PM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

Academic freedom is under threat from all sides today.. Where does the First Amendment enter in? Erwin Chemerinsky and I analyzed the issues in this event, with Erwin taking the lead.
youtu.be/eYp2xRNB8wo

A Discussion on Campus Speech and Academic Freedom: A Guide for Difficult Times

YouTube video by Edley Center on Law & Democracy at UC Berkeley Law

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February 13, 2026 at 9:03 PM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

This explains a lot about what's happening in the FDA & other agencies. politicalwire.com/2026/02/12/e...

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

"I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats." -- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, on a podcast.

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February 12, 2026 at 9:37 PM

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Center for Progressive Reform

@progressivereform.bsky.social

Could this be our opportunity to construct something even better?

Learn more about this decision in a statement from Center for Progressive Reform Policy Director and Interim Co-Executive Director @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social here:

progressivereform.org/cpr-blog/epa...

Statement on the EPA’s Final Rescission of the ‘Endangerment Finding’ - Center for Progressive Reform

Over the course of more than a century, serious statespeople came together to build the modern administrative state out of a shared commitment to redeeming their constitutional duty to form a more per...

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February 12, 2026 at 6:53 PM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

EPA's repeal of the Endangerment Finding is a thinly veiled effort to overturn a 2007 Supreme Court ruling. Even today's current conservative Court not by this.
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Hot Take on the Endangerment Repeal - Legal Planet

The other shoe has dropped with the announcement of the final rule repealing EPA’s 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare. The Trump Administration has the nasty habit of...

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February 12, 2026 at 9:18 PM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

People do matter. Trump went to war against Minneapolis. The city's people forced him to retreat.
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President’s Border Czar Says Minnesota Enforcement Surge Is Ending

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February 12, 2026 at 4:12 PM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

In its first year, the Trump Administration did enormous damage to public health protections. The damage has accelerated in the last month.
legal-planet.org/2026/02/12/t...

The Accelerating Decline of U.S. Public Health Policy - Legal Planet

It’s hard to believe how quickly a science-driven approach to protecting health has been replaced by ideology and quackery.

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February 12, 2026 at 4:11 PM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

Just when Trump is making a big push for "beautiful clean coal," solar energy is surging. Why put our money on a dirty 19th Century technology like coal?

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February 11, 2026 at 5:03 PM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

Whoever thought that the grand jury, long thought a rubber stamp for prosecutors, would turn out to fulfill its original function of protection against an overbearing government?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress

www.nytimes.com

February 11, 2026 at 2:39 AM

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Legal Planet

@legal-planet.org

A federal district court just struck down a Texas law blacklisting companies that oppose fossil fuels. @dfarber1950.bsky.social legal-planet.org/2026/02/09/s...

State Blacklists of Companies with Sustainability Policies Take a Constitutional Hit - Legal Planet

A federal court struck down an unconstitutional Texas law designed to silence corporate sustainability programs.

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February 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

Texas and other Red states have passed laws that blacklist companies with sustainability programs from state contracts. A federal court has now quite correctly struck down the Texas law.https://legal-planet.org/2026/02/09/state-anti-esg-blacklists-take-a-constitutional-hit/

February 10, 2026 at 5:53 PM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

Whatever Trump is "faithfully executing," it's not the laws of the United States -- unless you by "executing" you mean destroying.
legal-planet.org/2026/02/07/t...

Taking Care That the Law Be Fitfully Executed - Legal Planet

The President's core duty is carrying out the laws passed by Congress. For Trump, this has taken second place to imposing his own policies.

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February 9, 2026 at 4:45 PM

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UC Berkeley Law

@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social

Join Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Edley Center Faculty Co-Director Daniel Farber @dfarber1950.bsky.social for a discussion on Campus Speech and Academic Freedom on Monday 2/9, 2026, from 1-2 pm.
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A Discussion on Campus Speech and Academic Freedom: A Guide for Difficult Times

Please join Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Edley Center Faculty Co-Director Daniel Farber for a discussion on Campus Speech and Academic Freedom on Monday, February 9, 2026, from 1:00 – 2:00 […]

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February 6, 2026 at 7:32 PM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

We're being governed by lunatics.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

Kennedy Makes Unfounded Claim That Keto Diet Can ‘Cure’ Schizophrenia

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February 5, 2026 at 11:11 PM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

Trump has worked hard to destroy the renewable energy industry. It hasn't worked. Trump can slow the energy transition but he can't stop it.

legal-planet.org/2026/02/05/t...

Trump Tried to Kill Renewables. He Failed. - Legal Planet

Reewable energy is under attack from Trump and his allies, but it's continuing to expand and likely to keep going until he's gone.

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February 5, 2026 at 5:08 PM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

Trump's Energy Department has been secretly loosening safety regulations for reactors, and it plans to block environmental reviews of new reactors on federal lands. This is not the way to create public trust in nuclear.
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New Trump Nuclear Reactor Policy: “Trust Us” - Legal Planet

The Trump Administration is gleefully eliminating safeguards for nuclear reactors. This is only going to hurt the industry in the long run.

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February 2, 2026 at 5:38 PM

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alegalnerd.bsky.social

@alegalnerd.bsky.social

Heritage Foundation agrees with you Dan -- FACE Act is unconstitutional. Here's their argument.

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January 31, 2026 at 5:31 AM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

Trump's Energy Department has been secretly loosening safety regulations for reactors, and it plans to block environmental reviews of new reactors on federal lands. This is not the way to create public trust in nuclear.
legal-planet.org/2026/02/02/n...

New Trump Nuclear Reactor Policy: “Trust Us” - Legal Planet

The Trump Administration is gleefully eliminating safeguards for nuclear reactors. This is only going to hurt the industry in the long run.

legal-planet.org

February 2, 2026 at 5:33 PM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

Trump is doing everything conceivable to shore up the coal industry at the expense of consumers (who pay more for power) and public health (due to serious air pollution). Yet share prices are lower than they were at the worst of the financial crisis.
legal-planet.org/2026/02/02/k...

Keeping Coal on Life Support - Legal Planet

Shares in coal companies have nudged upwards since Trump took office but are still far below prices during the financial crisis.

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February 2, 2026 at 5:15 PM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

The regulatory czar was once a powerful figure using cost-benefit analysis to control agency regulations. But Trump disdaims cost-benefit analysis, there's no nominee for the position, and the stand-in faces possible disbarment.

legal-planet.org/2026/01/29/t...

The Decline and Fall of the “Regulatory Czar” - Legal Planet

The office of the regulatory czar has lost its main function as Trump has moved away from cost-benefit analysis, and its now adrift.

legal-planet.org

January 29, 2026 at 4:09 PM

Dan Farber

@dfarber1950.bsky.social

I had a great conversation about why and when chief executives break the law. I'm sure you won't have any problem think of a pertinent example.

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Faculti is the platform for research and policy insights. Watch structured interviews with global experts, explore AI-powered summaries of the scholarly record, and connect with evidence that matters ...

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January 28, 2026 at 6:35 PM

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Matt Novak

@paleofuture.bsky.social

“The ‘No Kings’ nationwide demonstration that has come to symbolize the resistance to the Trump administration is returning March 28, this time with a flagship event in the Twin Cities.”