Amid Doubts, Acting EPA Air Chief Details Ambitious Deregulatory Agenda

Anne Idsal, EPA’s acting Office of Air & Radiation chief, is detailing an ambitious deregulatory agenda for the coming years including finalizing rollbacks of major Obama-era rules and issuing policies to ease compliance mandates for states and industry, amid observers’ doubts over the content of, and justification for, some of the efforts. She told a Nov. 7 meeting of EPA’s Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC) in Arlington, VA, that the agenda includes implementation of its final Affordable Clean Energy...