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One Year of Energy Emergencies

The Drain is a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news from Legal Planet.

This past Tuesday — on the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump taking office and immediately declaring a national energy emergency — the new governor of New Jersey took office and immediately declared a state energy emergency. But these two approaches to executive action on energy couldn’t be more different and the results will help define …

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