Pruitt Defends EPA Agenda, Pledges Action 'Soon' On CPP, CWA Overhauls

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is defending his rollbacks of Obama-era policies as “clarification” not deregulation, pledging that the agency will take its first step toward replacing its greenhouse gas rule for existing power plants “very, very soon,” and vowing to move quickly on repealing the 2015 Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule. Addressing the conservative Federalist Society's National Lawyers Conference on Nov. 17 in Washington, D.C., Pruitt said EPA is close to releasing an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR)...