EPA Agenda

Groups Sue Over EPA’s Failure To Act On Petition To Withdraw GHG Finding

Led by a free-market advocacy group, several California-based companies and industry groups are asking a federal district court to require EPA to respond to their 2017 petition asking that it revoke its threshold regulatory finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare. The April 22 suit , Liberty Packing, et al. v. EPA, et al., filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, says the agency’s failure to act on its nearly four-year-old-old...

Regan Confirms Two-Stage Process For Federal Vehicle GHG Curbs

EPA Administrator Michael Regan says the agency is eyeing a two-stage process for tightening vehicle greenhouse gas regulations, starting with an expected July proposal and followed by a subsequent rulemaking, remarks that appear to ratify expectations EPA will pursue separate near- and long-term changes to its program. “We are, based on the president’s direction, looking at regulating tailpipe emissions [with] a notice of proposed rulemaking this July,” Regan told Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) during a broader April 20 hearing before...

Environmentalists Eye Tough EPA Regulations Ahead Of Climate Summit

Environmentalists are pressing the Biden administration to allow EPA to move forward with a range of strict climate and environmental justice rules as well as civil rights law enforcement, ahead of President Joe Biden’s widely anticipated announcement later this week of revamped U.S. climate goals for the United Nations Paris Agreement. During an April 19 press call, the groups -- EarthJustice, WE ACT for Environmental Justice and the Sierra Club -- urged Biden to both set an ambitious “nationally determined...

OIG Seeks To Protect EPA Staff Input After Faulting Trump Auto Rule

EPA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is urging the agency to craft a policy for future joint rulemakings with other agencies that ensures sufficient input from agency staff, after concluding that the “quality” of the Trump administration’s rollback of vehicle greenhouse gas standards suffered from multiple procedural shortcomings. But agency officials appear to be sidestepping the OIG’s advice, saying in response to an earlier draft of the just-issued report only that it “agrees to have discussions with partner agencies to...

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