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What Biden Rules Could Congress Unplug With Review Act? [1]

As the Biden White House rushes to enact environment and energy policy before Inauguration Day, an obscure law leaves room for the incoming administration to claw them back. At risk: strengthened emissions standards for vehicles and power, tougher energy efficiency standards and plans to replace lead pipes. The latest EJ TransitionWatch explains how the reversal works — and why it might not.

SEJ Publication Types: 
EJ TransitionWatch [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [3]
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Infrastructure [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Policy [11]
Pollution [12]
Technology [13]
Transportation [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [16]
Visibility: 
Public [17]
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"Frontline Communities Fight to Evict a Toxic Roofing Company" [18]

"One of America’s largest shingle makers is pumping pollution into Black and brown communities from Texas to Minnesota"

Air [3]
Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [21]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [12]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [16]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [22]
Source: Sierra [23], 01/09/2025
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"Biden Admin Cedes Pivotal Air Pollution Rules To Trump" [24]

"While EPA rejected a push to scrap tougher safeguards for accidental industrial emissions, it has relented on the timetables for smog and incinerator rules."

Air [3]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [12]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Politico [25], 01/06/2025
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What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for Environmental Justice? [26]

An incoming Trump administration hostile to the very idea of environmental justice likely means the rollback of numerous policies and regulations designed to protect disadvantaged communities, cuts to an important “whole-of-government” initiative and downsizing of key federal environmental justice offices. The latest EJ TransitionWatch examines what’s at stake. And for more, see our Topics on the Beat page on environmental justice [27].

SEJ Publication Types: 
EJ TransitionWatch [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Air [3]
Climate Change [4]
Environmental Justice [21]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Health [28]
Infrastructure [9]
Laws & Regulations [10]
People & Population [29]
Policy [11]
Pollution [12]
Waste [30]
Water & Oceans [15]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [16]
Visibility: 
Public [17]
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Florida Debates Where To Build The Nation’s Largest Trash Incinerator [31]

"Residents argue the project will disproportionately impact majority-Black and -Hispanic communities in the Miami-Dade area."

Activism [32]
Air [3]
Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [21]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [12]
Waste [30]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [16]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [33]
Source: KFF Health News [34], 01/02/2025
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Toxic Benzene Plagued Channelview, Tex. Regulators Never Told Residents. [35]

"The highest levels exceed even Texas’ benzene guideline — the weakest in the nation — but aren’t being recorded by a state monitor. That means the community’s cancer risk could be higher than previously thought."

Air [3]
Chemicals [19]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Justice [21]
Journalism & Media [36]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [12]
Public [17]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [22]
Source: Public Health Watch [37], 01/02/2025
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Carcinogen From Goodyear Plant Is Invading Niagara Falls Neighborhoods [38]

"Recent computer modeling shows that the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s chemical plant in Niagara Falls, New York, is releasing a bladder carcinogen into nearby neighborhoods at levels up to seven times the state’s safety guideline."

Air [3]
Chemicals [19]
Environmental Health [20]
Pollution [12]
Public [17]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [39]
Source: Public Health Watch [40], 12/20/2024
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"Biden Declares Tougher 2035 Emissions Targets Weeks Before Trump Return" [41]

"Joe Biden has announced tougher targets on the US’s carbon dioxide emissions for the next decade, in a defiant final gesture intended as a “capstone” on his legacy on the climate."

Air [3]
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Pollution [12]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [42]
Source: Guardian [43], 12/20/2024
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EPA Approves California Electric Car Mandate. Will Trump Try To Revoke It? [44]

"The Biden administration today approved California’s groundbreaking mandate phasing out new gas-powered cars just weeks before the incoming Trump administration poses a threat of overturning electric vehicle and climate rules."

Air [3]
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [12]
Transportation [14]
Public [17]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: CalMatters [45], 12/20/2024
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Polluted Communities Gasp As California Struggles With Diesel Truck Ban [46]

"Standing in his front yard in Wilmington, Jose Ulloa can’t get a sentence out without coughing. Heavy-duty trucks, headed to and from the Port of Los Angeles, pass in front of his home all day, their engines roaring and their exhaust spewing into the air."

Activism [32]
Air [3]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [20]
Environmental Justice [21]
Laws & Regulations [10]
Pollution [12]
Public [17]
California [47]
Source: CalMatters [48], 12/11/2024
  • Read more about Polluted Communities Gasp As California Struggles With Diesel Truck Ban [46]

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