The dubious legal theory Republicans are using to kill climate progress

Republicans are undoing years of climate progress under the second Trump administration using an unlikely progressive tool: antitrust law.

Their antitrust strategy is to sue companies that work together on green initiatives, alleging they are colluding in violation of the antitrust laws.

Republicans assert that agreements among businesses to promote environmental goals, known as Environmental, Social , and Governance goals, violate the Sherman Act .

Republicans have already succeeded in fracturing many of the world’s leading climate alliances.

GOP antitrust theory that climate pacts constitute anticompetitive collusion has sparked fierce debate among antitrust experts.

Experts disagree about whether shared commitments to climate goals violate the antitrust laws.

Republicans have already scored a major victory by decimating the private-sector coalitions that were once seen as a backstop for deregulatory efforts.