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Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is expected to face tough questions from Senate Democrats on the agency's regulatory rollback agenda at his Jan. 16 confirmation hearing to head EPA permanently, with the senators aiming to elevate public scrutiny of the deregualtory effort even as they lack the votes to block Wheeler.
A new peer-reviewed study of the greenhouse gas and other emission effects of EPA's Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) proposal finds the policy would have the perverse outcome of boosting GHGs in 19 states by causing almost one-third of existing coal plants to run more often.
As Congress gears up to craft infrastructure funding legislation, dozens of industry, state, water and environmental groups are urging lawmakers to ensure that any bill funds a range of water and wastewater projects along with the transportation infrastructure it is widely expected to fund.
Environmentalists are suing EPA over its failure to ban paint-stripping uses of methylene chloride after finding that it does not meet the Toxic Substances Control Act's (TSCA) risk standard, marking one of the first legal tests of the agency's responsibilities to regulate toxic substances under the law since Congress revised it in 2016.
Observers are increasingly expecting that any deal on changes to vehicle greenhouse gas and fuel economy standards is unlikely before the Trump administration finalizes an aggressive rollback of the rules, suggesting debate over the issue will only get more acrimonious -- not less -- in the coming months.
A comprehensive special report on legislation, litigation and agency rulemakings in the coming year on major air, water, waste, toxics and other policies.
The ongoing shutdown at EPA and other agencies underscores the challenge the Trump administration faces in completing a packed dregulatory agenda for 2019, including proposing or finalizing a host of complicated, high-profile rulemakings in time to also complete litigation before the end of President Donald Trump's current term.
Industry groups challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule are clashing with EPA over novel procedural arguments that, depending on how federal courts respond, could set a high bar not only for lawsuits over the reach of the water law but a host of future policy reversals.
Environmentalists fear a proposed EPA training program to limit commercial exposures to methylene chloride in paint strippers hints at a retreat from an Obama-era plan to prohibit the use outright, suggesting the agency will instead finalize a scaled-back ban that will allow some paint-stripping uses of the chemical despite potential risks to workers.
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers from Michigan is intensifying its push for EPA to list all per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as “hazardous substances” under the Superfund law, a step that would give the agency authority to compel cleanups, weeks after EPA agreed to list two of the most common PFAS substances.
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.
