Deregulation Backers Hedge On Significance Of Initial Trump Rollbacks

July 20, 2017
Free-market and other proponents of deregulation are reserving judgment -- at least publicly -- on the progress of the Trump administration's pledge to rollback environmental and other regulations, even as administration officials tout their initial successes in withdrawing or reconsidering rules at EPA and other federal agencies. Their critiques include suggestions that the ultimate impact President Donald Trump's Executive Order (EO) 13771, which requires agencies to identify two rules for possible repeal for every new regulation that they issue, is...


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