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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is strongly urging a federal appellate court to reject a request by youth plaintiffs pursuing a constitutional climate change suit against the government that would clear a path to allow them to petition the Supreme Court to reinstate their case, signaling the Biden administration may not be willing to settle the matter or reverse its predecessor’s opposition.
The United Nation’s Montreal Protocol treaty to protect the stratospheric ozone layer, which has evolved into a program that phases out product feedstocks that also have high global warming potential, could be used as a model to achieve reductions of other greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxides (N2O), experts say.
A coalition of 86 environmental groups is urging Northeastern states to adopt California’s strict policies for cutting greenhouse gases and conventional air pollutants from heavy duty vehicles, fighting claims from engine manufacturers that the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) rules are ill-suited for adoption by other states.
Environmentalists are urging EPA to redo portions of its controversial TSCA evaluation of the solvent trichloroethylene (TCE), and craft risk management rules based on more conservative data, arguing that the Trump-era findings were tainted by “political interference” that President Joe Biden has already ordered the agency to remedy.
EPA faces a steep but feasible challenge with rebuilding its scientific capacity after its erosion during the Trump administration, according to former agency officials who say the Biden EPA should not only aim to restore that capacity but seek to entrench scientific “norms” so that a future administration cannot easily undo them.
The Senate’s environment committee will hold a confirmation hearing this week to consider President Joe Biden’s nominees to chair the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and to become EPA’s deputy administrator. Meanwhile, a panel of the House Natural Resources Committee will examine climate planning legislation for U.S. territories.
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A research fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) free-market think tank is cautioning the Biden administration against pursuing mandates for companies to report their environmental, social and governance (ESG) actions, saying voluntary industry ESG efforts make such requirements unnecessary.
The Biden EPA is facing a series of early policy and legal challenges to its air and climate agenda, as the agency grapples with whether to scrap Trump-era reviews of federal air quality standards, how to mediate thorny disputes over interstate air pollution, and how to balance its ambitious climate agenda with a new focus on environmental justice.
Administration observers are questioning whether Michael Regan, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead EPA, could face a diminished role if he wins Senate confirmation due to the large number of Obama-era officials who have returned to the agency and the White House to work on implementing Biden’s environmental agenda.
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