EPA Spurns ECOS After State Group’s Cooperative Federalism Rebuke

EPA has been quietly pushing back against the Environmental Council of the States’ (ECOS) recent criticism of “unilateral” agency actions that threaten EPA-state cooperation, including by recalling to the agency staff that had been assigned to assist the group of state environment chiefs and throttling back communication with it. ECOS is “kind of in the wilderness right now and is not getting a lot of access” to people at EPA they would normally be engaging with, says a source familiar...