EPA Cites States’ Support To Counter ECOS’ Claim Of ‘Unilateral’ Federalism

EPA is rejecting charges from the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) that its attacks on California’s air and water programs undermine the “cooperative federalism” balance of state and federal authority on environmental policy, highlighting new praise from top environmental officials in GOP-led states of the agency’s work with them. “The Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency has worked with individual State Departments of Environmental Quality in a manner unlike the previous Administration, and it will continue to consistently work with...