Environment-Focused AGs Find Their Place in Post-Trump World

Democratic attorneys general are playing an aggressive part in environmental fights even after their splashy role as Trump administration adversaries has ended and Republican-led states step in as top challengers of federal policy.

California’s new attorney general is expanding the agency’s environmental justice bureau while Connecticut is pursuing a high-stakes climate case against Exxon Mobil Corp. Democratic AGs in New York, Maryland, Minnesota, Washington, and other states are doing similar work.

“Nobody’s going to be sitting back twiddling their thumbs because a person from their political party is in power,” said Jones Day’s Courtney Lyons Snyder, administrative partner for the ...