Epa Rulemaking News Today

EPA announced second part of eighth attempt to define Clean Water Act reach will be delayed until November 2023 but will move forward with finalizing part one of attempt fall 2022, same time that Supreme Court will hear Sackett v. EPA.

© Getty Images On the same day the rule of law was violently assaulted on Capitol Hill, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stealthily attacked the legal framework that federal agencies must use when they issue substantive regulations.  Deploying an old tobacco industry trick, Trump’s EPA finalized a “transparency rule” that will limit use of scientific evidence about the human health risks of environmental pollutants.  Worse, the EPA declared the rule effective immediately...