California Environmental Laws Create Stalemate

An interesting situation has developed in California, where the state's environmental justice law has resulted in a judge suspending the state's cap-and-trade law because of the disproportionate effect it could have on low income people. As the New York Times reports:

Essentially, a major environmental initiative is under threat because the state failed to correctly carry out the appropriate environmental analysis.

Or, as Richard Frank, director of the California Environmental Law & Policy Center at University of California, Davis, put it, "one of California's two most important environmental laws has been stymied -- at least temporarily -- by the other."

The complete article from the Times can be found here.