Patrick Parenteau

American environmental law scholar

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When you look under the hood, they’re fake national security emergencies,
If Trump is successful here, he could be the first person in history to knowingly extirpate a species from the face of the earth. That’s how precarious the condition of the Rice’s whale is,
It literally has the power of life or death,
  • said Pat Parenteau, an emeritus law professor at the Vermont Law School, who helped write the original exemption provision in the law
    CNNcnn.com/2026/03…

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