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Observers are closely watching how EPA will navigate the legal questions surrounding greenhouse gas “endangerment” in its forthcoming proposal to upend Obama-era oil and gas methane rules, including whether and to what degree it embraces industry claims that the rules omitted a required sector- or pollutant-specific risk review.
A recent conference seeking to develop a research strategy on per- and polyfluoroalkyls (PFAS), the broad class of chemicals drawing increasing public attention, sparked debate over a plan from Michael Dourson, a one-time Trump nominee to lead EPA’s toxics office, who renewed his push for a novel method for assessing the risks of PFOA, the most-studied of the chemicals.
Key House Democrats are raising concerns about EPA’s draft plan to limit the role of the Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) in permit reviews as a way to speed permitting, demanding information on the issue, including whether EAB’s work reviewing enforcement matters will continue despite the planned policy changes.
Federal judges, in a split decision on an EPA policy memo, are outlining competing tests for how to assess whether an agency deregulatory guidance is a “final action” subject to judicial review, with the majority acknowledging that the decision is likely to spark a debate in this “somewhat gnarled field of jurisprudence.”
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Achieving a “circular economy” (CE) that treats all waste as potentially recoverable as a valuable material through recycling will be impossible without corporate partnerships with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and others in and out of company supply chains, according to key business officials.
Sensing a “huge energy” among climate change policy proponents under 35 years old, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is advancing its “Defend Our Future” project that teaches the advocates political and other skills to make the case for federal action, reflecting the age group’s growing fear that climate change poses an irreversible threat to their future well-being.
Major industry groups and other critics of significant EPA air, water and other regulations are ramping up legal and administrative efforts for the Trump administration to quickly finalize rollbacks of the policies, ranging from fresh battles over Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction to calls to expand a regulatory waiver for toxic emissions sources to also cover criteria pollutants.
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