Professor Frank Talks to L.A. Times About Trump's Anti-Clean Energy Stance

Professor Rick Frank spoke to Los Angeles Times Washington columnist Doyle McManus for a March 31 column on how Donald Trump plans to roll back California’s clean energy initiatives if he is elected president again.

Frank said a second Trump administration’s proposals would likely be more carefully considered.                                                             

“In the first term, the Trump administration had a kind of blunderbuss approach. Their proposals weren’t well thought out. They often didn’t hold up under close review,” Frank told McManus. “Now they appear to be trying to learn from those mistakes. ... They could be a lot more strategic the second time.”

Richard M. Frank ’74 is a leader in the field of environmental law, Professor of Environmental Practice and the founding director of the California Environmental Law and Policy Center at UC Davis School of Law.