Todd Zywicki on Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County
ICLE Academic Affiliate Todd Zywicki was quoted in a Daily Wire piece about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to grant cert to Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County and the implications of the decision for energy policy:
Todd Zywicki, a law professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, described the case as a test of whether local governments can effectively impose national policy through litigation. “For years, trial lawyers and left-wing municipalities have used state law as a backdoor to impose their preferred energy policies on the entire country — without a vote, without Congress, and without accountability,” Zywicki said, adding that the Constitution does not permit such an end run around federal authority.
Read the full piece here.