House Republican Probes Biden EPA’s Enforcement ‘Weaponization’

April 11, 2025
A top Republican on a House oversight panel is announcing an inquiry into the Biden EPA’s “weaponization” of environmental regulations, asserting those efforts imposed significant costs on small businesses and urging the Trump administration to re-examine a series of enforcement settlements. “Under the Biden administration, many American businesses and citizens were the target of politically motivated regulatory enforcement and ‘environmental justice’ directives, with agencies demanding overly restrictive consent decrees with costly requirements as a condition of terminating litigation,” argues Rep...


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