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On environmental protection, Biden's election will mean a 180-degree turn from Trump policies

  • Written by Janet McCabe, Professor of Practice of Law, Indiana University
imagePresident-elect Joe Biden opposes proposals to allow uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, which the Trump administration supports.Michael Quinn, NPS/Flickr, CC BY

The Trump administration has waged what I and many other legal experts view as an all-out assault on the nation’s environmental laws for the past four years. Decisions at the...

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