Ex-Official Expects Trump EPA Enforcement To Focus on ‘Basic Principles’

A former top Trump administration official says he expects the incoming administration to return to “basic” enforcement principles like clean air, clean water, and clean land -- abandoning the Biden administration’s focus on climate and environmental justice (EJ). “I think in the next Trump administration, you’ll see a return to some of the basic principles that motivated that administration in the environmental space,” Jeff Wood, who served as acting assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Environment &...