Andrew Wheeler, EPA's acting administrator, is committed to continuing the Trump administration deregulatory agenda but he is charting a different path than his predecessor. Follow every move with Inside EPA.
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The chemical industry is targeting for correction EPA's combined use of its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) assessment for ethylene oxide (EO), a sterilizer chemical, and air toxics modeling data, a request that could be bolstered by the agency's recent agreement to review similar industry concerns over EPA oversight of chloroprene.
A former EPA employee with a decade of technical experience on vehicle greenhouse gas standards is calling the analysis supporting the Trump administration's proposed rollback of vehicle GHG and fuel economy standards “the most biased and dishonest technical analysis I have ever seen during my 40-year career,” predicting that the plan will fail in court if finalized.
Charging that EPA is “not doing nearly enough,” environmentalists are urging the Senate to require the Trump administration to quickly take a series of steps to address water contamination from per- and polyflouroalkyl substances (PFAS), citing a new study that suggests levels at many military bases exceed a federal health agency's draft risk values.
EPA is calling on a federal appeals court to rehear its decision that vacated a move by former Administrator Scott Pruitt to reverse an Obama-era proposed ban on the commonly used pesticide chlorpyrifos, claiming that the court lacked jurisdiction to review Pruitt's decision and erred in its order compelling the agency to ban the substance.
A power sector attorney is suggesting EPA use its imminent reconsideration of the Obama-era utility air toxics rule to replace it with state-led programs for curbing power plant emissions using air trading or other more-flexible controls, but that could trigger a fight over whether the programs will have a “co-benefit” of reducing other air pollution.
EPA's deregulatory agenda is prompting a wide range of fresh controversies, ranging from the policy impacts of the agency's Hurricane Florence response and a potential ethics conflict for air chief William Wehrum, though its plan to undo Obama-era climate rules is garnering much of the attention.
The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) at a recent meeting with Trump administration officials urged a full review of the environmental and endangered species impacts of its long-awaited Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction standard, and warned the group will sue if -- as appears likely -- regulators ignore those requests in the pending rule.
The watchdog's findings add to concerns that the agency is not adequately regulating the carcinogen under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
EPA has reached a proposed settlement with the manufacturer of custom tuning kits for cars and trucks to address emissions control “defeat devices,” the first time that the agency has sought to settle such claims with a company that makes aftermarket products, rather than a direct manufacturer of vehicles and engines.
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