The administration cannot claim the federal government’s ability to enact greenhouse gas regulations precludes states’ authority to pass climate superfund laws while claiming it has no statutory authority to regulate emissions, CLF and advocacy group Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont asserted in a recent filing in federal court meant to defend Vermont’s climate superfund law. (Both the EPA and the Department of Justice declined to comment on the new filing.)

This administration does this a lot. Says that’s states can’t do something because it’s federal, then also claim federal can’t do anything. And of course it’s only for things Trump doesn’t like. Like pesky LGBTQ, DEI, and abortion.