"The EPA is urgently updating regulations to address climate change without regard to the Congressional Review Act, even as the agency faces legal headwinds, administrator Michael Regan said Friday.
“My general philosophy on the CRA is that’s sort of secondary for me,” Regan said, speaking at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference in Philadelphia. “The primary driver for me is the sense of urgency we face in terms of impacts of climate change.”
The Environmental Protection Agency is trying revise regulations as quickly as possible, he said. While others are focused on how Congress might use the CRA to reverse new regulations in 2025, families facing the impacts of chemical pollution and climate change are the driving force behind the EPA’s swift pace of writing new regulations, Regan said.
But at the same time, unfavorable court rulings and the prospect of the US Supreme Court tossing out Chevron deference are forcing the EPA to be more careful in its rulemaking, Regan said."
Bobby Magill reports for Bloomberg Environment April 5, 2024.
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