Kavanaugh’s track record on environmental law favors business over climate change protections. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-10-23/kavanaugh-s-track-record-environmental-law-favors-business-over-climate-change

Recently appointed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has a track record over his thirty years of law of favoring businesses and corporations’ interests over those of the environment. The article indicates that during the process of bringing Kavanaugh into the court, there was too much focus on his sexual assault allegations and not enough on his actual legal history. He has a track record of strict interpretations overall.

With the ever-growing problems relating to climate change, someone with this track record in the Supreme Court could prove problematic moving forward as the issue gets worse and worse. One example of this is when “Kavanaugh looked at the language of the Clean Air Act and said, ‘No, EPA’s authority is limited to substituting one ozone deplete for another, but it can’t take climate change into account when it looks at alternatives.’” Being on the SCOTUS gives Kavanaugh tons of influence over the culture of business practices towards environmental factors, and when there is less focus on saving the environment, it could prove detrimental to environmental health longer term.