"The president’s deregulatory blitz might crash into the same repetitive setback from his first term: court defeats stemming from procedural fumbles."

"The Trump administration is gearing up to challenge some of the highest-profile Clean Air Act regulations of the Biden administration.

Any attempt, however, to scrap or weaken them could risk running afoul of the same obstacle that repeatedly stalled regulatory rollbacks during President Donald Trump’s first term: court setbacks tied to procedural fumbles.

Between 2017 and 2021, federal judges repeatedly found that EPA sideswiped the Administrative Procedure Act and other guardrails in hastening to undo climate and air rules. Those decisions helped fuel a 57 percent loss rate in challenges to major regulations of all types during Trump’s first term, according to a tally by the Institute for Policy Integrity, a liberal-leaning think tank based at New York University law school."

Sean Reilly reports for E&E News February 25, 2025. [2]