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EPA's decision to reconsider portions of its greenhouse gas rule for heavy-duty vehicles that apply to trailers and “glider kits” is drawing concern from truck and engine manufacturers who fear the move could undermine the compromises the Obama administration struck that won widespread industry buy-in, as well as national uniformity ensured by California's agreement to follow the rule.
A panel convened to inform a future EPA rule for reducing reporting for certain chemicals' uses is split on whether to eliminate long-standing exemptions for certain uses, with industry calling the move contrary to the group's charge and environmentalists saying the exemptions lack scientific basis, though EPA is seeking compromise to continue the talks.
A federal court has blocked approval of a coal mine expansion after finding that Interior Department officials failed to adequately consider the greenhouse gas effects of the coal's transport and use in an environmental review of the project, underscoring that agencies likely will have to address fossil projects' climate effects despite the Trump administration's opposition to quantifying such measures.
Appellate judges say a suit they are overseeing centering on a decades-old EPA and Army Corps of Engineers rule excluding some wetlands from the Clean Water Act (CWA) could, if ultimately appealed to the Supreme Court, be a vehicle for the justices to try limiting courts' deference to regulators' interpretations of the wetlands rule.
EPA is elevating the importance of industry-sought criteria, including consumer acceptance, affordability and economic impacts, in its reconsideration of greenhouse gas standards for light-duty vehicles in the years leading up to 2025, according to recently released documents from a meeting the agency hosted with automakers earlier this summer.
Automakers are welcoming the Trump administration's review of Obama-era greenhouse gas and fuel economy standards for light-duty vehicles but if they are to win new regulations easing the standards as soon as model year 2021 they will have to mediate between the administration and California officials who strongly oppose any roll back.
Public interest groups are fighting the Department of Justice's (DOJ) novel claim that showing harm to the groups' ability to comment on regulatory repeals is not enough to give them standing to sue over President Donald Trump's executive order (EO) directing agencies to identify two rules to repeal for every new rule they issue, countering that DOJ's argument would limit citizens' ability to challenge a host of constitutional violations.
Washington state firefighters are urging Democratic senators to halt development of a novel dispersion modeling approach for assessing risks from toxic gas releases, arguing the federal agency and industry collaboration underestimates risks to the public in filings with EPA and other agencies, though an industry group says the method is based on sound science and may still be revised.
The bipartisan backing for last year's law overhauling the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act has given way to environmentalists' litigation challenging two of the Trump EPA's initial rules for how the agency will assess the risks from chemicals in line with the updated law.
A panel convened to inform a future EPA rule for reducing reporting for certain chemicals' uses is split on whether to eliminate long-standing exemptions for certain uses, with industry calling the move contrary to the group's charge and environmentalists saying the exemptions lack scientific basis, though EPA is seeking compromise to continue the talks.
A panel convened to inform a future EPA rule for reducing reporting for certain chemicals' uses is split on whether to eliminate long-standing exemptions for certain uses, with industry calling the move contrary to the group's charge and environmentalists saying the exemptions lack scientific basis, though EPA is seeking compromise to continue the talks.
A major coal industry group is raising concerns with a draft version of a much-anticipated Energy Department (DOE) electric grid study, arguing it understates the adverse impact EPA regulations have had on coal plant retirements, in hopes to influence Trump officials who are already touting a “comeback” for the fuel.
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.
