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Even as the Trump administration is poised to unveil its proposed rule for rolling back Obama-era light-duty vehicle greenhouse gas and fuel economy standards, EPA is advancing a new draft plan that could give automakers more generous compliance credits for advanced vehicles and other technologies.
EPA has sent a narrower Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule for White House pre-publication rule to replace the Obama-era jurisdiction rule, but even though the submission marks a major step forward in the agency's repeal-and-replace plan the legal battles over the existing rule and EPA's replacement process are escalating.
EPA staff has begun drafting revisions to 2003 brownfields guidance that outlines when developers can qualify for limited liability protection under the Superfund law, responding to recommendations from Administrator Scott Pruitt's Superfund Task Force and longstanding calls from industry for greater clarity in the wake of controversial legal rulings.
Senate appropriators have added a provision in EPA's fiscal year 2019 spending package formally admonishing Administrator Scott Pruitt -- albeit without mentioning him by name -- for numerous reported ethical lapses, marking a political response and mounting Capitol Hill impatience with Pruitt's scandals.
In a rare bipartisan spending move, Senate appropriators have unanimously approved a fiscal year 2019 spending bill that would slightly boost EPA's funding compared to current levels, and that includes few policy riders -- but the bipartisan agreement could give way to a contentious floor fight, as well as a struggle reconciling it with the House's bill that would reduce EPA's funding.
EPA's preliminary rulemaking to consider changing how it weighs the costs and benefits of its rules could lead to far-reaching changes, including trimming the estimates of a rule's co-benefits, greater consideration of costs in a variety of settings and revisiting already-issued regulations.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told farmers that he plans to send a proposed jurisdiction rule for White House review on June 15.
Even as EPA faces questions on whether it is accurately estimating the industry fees it will need to help implement the revised toxics law, a coalition of companies is warning that the agency has omitted language in its proposed fee rule on how it will refund companies whose applications for new chemical uses are not reviewed by the statutory deadline.
What's ahead for EPA in the second year of the Trump administration's deregulatory agenda and Administrator Scott Pruitt's efforts to overhaul the agency
Appellate judges weighing the legality of the Army Corps of Engineers' regional supplements to its handbook for identifying wetlands under the Clean Water Act (CWA) appeared split at oral argument on whether a 1992 spending law bars the practice of using regional handbooks, with one judge backing that claim and another strongly questioning it.
Exclusive news, hot documents, and timely updates on legislation and litigation over EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers' joint Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule.
