"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday it would “reconsider” air-quality regulations amid Texas’s diesel price “disaster.”
The letter sent by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) responded to concern from officials in the Lone Star State that rules from the Biden and Obama administrations are causing “significant economic harm.”
“Texas should not be unfairly punished with burdensome requirements,” Zeldin said in a press release about the letter. “While EPA cannot prejudge the outcomes of these reconsiderations, the agency is committed to working with Texas to make sure this is done right.”
The review comes after Abbott declared a statewide disaster over diesel prices Monday, allowing him to lift other restrictions on commercial transportation. He expanded the use of dyed diesel — untaxed off-road fuel typically banned on public roadways — on Texas roads and suspended Texas Low Emission Diesel rules to the federal government limit."
