"An appeals court judge who helped preserve Obama-era ozone protections, chided energy regulators for inadequate climate analysis and played a key role in legal wrangling over the Clean Power Plan is set to retire later this year.
Judge Thomas Griffith, tapped by a Republican president for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, has been part of several key rulings upholding environmental interests.
"Judge Griffith was an administrative-law nerd — even by D.C. Circuit standards — and followed the Administrative Procedure Act where it took him, even when the results sometimes cut against his perceived political leanings," said Hogan Lovells partner Sean Marotta."
Source: Greenwire, 03/06/2020
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