Lawyers Expect Loper To Limit Deregulation, GHG Risk Finding Reversal

Legal experts say the Supreme Court’s decision last year ending deference to agencies’ statutory interpretation is likely to put some constraints on the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda, particularly EPA’s planned rollback of the greenhouse gas endangerment finding given statutory language supporting the agency’s longstanding approach. The decision, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo , “will constrain, I think, both aggressively pro-environmental administrations and aggressively deregulatory administrations, like the Trump administration,” argued Jeff Holmstead, former Bush EPA air chief and now partner...