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Alejandro Camacho

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Environmental law professor @ucirvine.bsky.social, Faculty Director of @ucilawenvironment.bsky.social. He/El. (Too) obsessed with regulation, climate, wildlife, conservation, futbol, rugby, basketball. https://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/camacho

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · Mar 24

Here's a side project I organized but five great law students have been leading. Really proud of them. Please widely share the tracker (which is being repeatedly updated) with anyone whom you think would benefit from the information.

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Unmasking DOGE - Center for Progressive Reform

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), under the questionable leadership of Elon Musk, has quickly become the signature initiative of the second Trump administration. Since Inaugura...

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · 9h

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.

California’s Big Climate and Energy Package, Explained

How California Quietly Overhauled Its Energy Policy

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · 10h

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.

Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember

Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · 5d

UC Faculty please consider signing

No Capitulation Petition - Council of UC Faculty Associations

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · 15d

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.

Trump tells UN that climate change is 'greatest con job' globally

(Reuters) -President Donald Trump dismissed climate change as “the greatest con job” in the world during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, doubling down on his skepticism ...

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UC Irvine School of Law @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social · Aug 26

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.

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

Center for Progressive Reform @progressivereform.bsky.social · Aug 26

In under 200 days, Trump 2.0 has launched the most reckless assault on environmental protections in U.S. history, earning the title “Worst President for the Environment.”

Read more from Board Member Alejandro Camacho in The Hill. @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · Aug 17

For those struggling with inaction, perhaps this might help.

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · Aug 12

Pledge to Stand Up for UC

The future of America’s leading public university system is at stake.

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · Jul 29

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.

Trump Environmental Protection Agency moves to repeal finding that allows climate regulation

President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed revoking a scientific finding that's long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

Fox News Host Declares Himself a Nazi

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · Jul 15

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.

Inside Interior | July 4, 2025

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · Jun 29

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.

Senate’s tax bill seeks to gut clean energy; Musk calls it ‘utterly insane’

The Republican-controlled Congress is poised to score a major win for President Trump by repealing green energy incentives that Democrats passed in 2022.

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Center for Progressive Reform @progressivereform.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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NEPA: The Accepted Lies and Mistakes About This Critical Environmental Law • The Revelator

The National Environmental Policy Act makes government decisions better and more democratic, despite what critics claim.

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · Jun 27

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.

NEPA: The Accepted Lies and Mistakes About This Critical Environmental Law • The Revelator

The National Environmental Policy Act makes government decisions better and more democratic, despite what critics claim.

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

E&E News: US exports much of the world’s climate misinformation — report

New research calls out President Donald Trump specifically for this ability to spread falsehoods about global warming.

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · Jun 13

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Rep. Stansbury: America has no kings

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · Jun 11

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.

Trump’s EPA to claim power-plant emissions ‘not significant’ – but study says otherwise

US power sector would be world’s sixth largest emitter of planet-heating greenhouse gas if it were a country, study finds

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Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · Jun 2

I should add that it’s gonna hurt communities that largely voted for Trump. Maybe there’s a silver lining there.

Alejandro Camacho @alejandrocamacho.bsky.social · Jun 2

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.

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The Department of Energy Is ‘Giving Away the Future of Manufacturing’

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright canceled 24 decarbonization grants worth $3.7 billion.

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Center for Progressive Reform @progressivereform.bsky.social · May 30

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

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Center for Progressive Reform @progressivereform.bsky.social · May 30

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

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Center for Progressive Reform @progressivereform.bsky.social · May 30

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.

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Center for Progressive Reform @progressivereform.bsky.social · May 30

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. 👀

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