Ann Carlson in Roll Call: An overeager legal strategy may endanger Trump’s energy goals

In August, Ann Carlson, an environmental law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, noted that the administration had lost four high profile environmental cases in the previous eight days. That spate, which included defeats over the Keystone XL pipeline, a toxic pesticide, water regulations and safety rules for chemical plants, followed a slew of losses “over the past 18 months,” she wrote.