Environmentalists Fear Weaker EPA Ash Rule Enforcement Under Bodine

Environmentalists fear that Susan Bodine -- President Donald Trump's nominee to head EPA's enforcement office -- would use the position to soften the Obama-era coal ash disposal rule by weakening enforcement of the policy, citing her testimony to Congress in 2013 that called for placing major limits on EPA's oversight of ash disposal. However, sources in the power and ash reuse industries are downplaying the idea that Bodine would have any significant influence on the rule's enforcement, since states are...