Tag: Trump Administration

The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to overturn an OSHA recordkeeping rule that was passed during the Obama administration and took effect in January. The next step is Senate approval, which is expected, before it lands on President Donald Trump’s desk, where it’s expected to be signed into law. With the help of a […]

OSHA has announced a proposed delay in the effective date of a final rule to protect workers from exposure to beryllium. Get the new timetable and important details here.

Well-known conservative members of the Climate Leadership Council have issued a short paper urging Congress and the White House to develop a tax on industry carbon emissions.

The Clean Water Rule (CWR, June 29, 2015, Federal Register), one of the two signature environmental actions of the Obama Administration, has been officially placed on President Trump’s chopping block. In an Executive Order (EO), the president directed the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), the two agencies that wrote the CWR, to rescind […]

President Trump has followed up on his January 31, 2017, Executive Order (EO) regarding offsetting the number and cost of new regulations with a second EO that implements and enforces the first EO, as well as regulatory-reform EOs issued by previous administrations.

Five Republican senators from ethanol-producing states are hoping Scott Pruitt, EPA’s new administrator, will lift the current Agency restriction on the use of E15 (fuel that is 85 percent gasoline and 15 percent ethanol) from June 1 to September 15. The restriction is intended to lower evaporative emissions during the summer months to control the […]

Legislation to amend the current regime of state and federal rules to control vessel ballast discharges has been reintroduced in both houses of Congress.  The Senate version of the bill—the Commercial Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (S.168)—was first introduced in 2014 by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Mark Begich, the former Democratic senator for Alaska.  The […]

With remarkable efficiency, less than 1 month after inauguration, Congress and President Trump came together to nullify the Stream Protection Rule (SPR, December 20, 2016, Federal Register), a major regulatory action 6 years in the making at the Department of Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.

On Friday, February 17, the Senate voted 52-46 to approve President Trump’s nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as Administrator of the EPA. Upon being sworn in, Pruitt will take the helm of an Agency he sued at least 12 times as AG, primarily alleging that the EPA issued rules that exceeded the Agency’s […]

News media have reported that President Trump will issue a new executive order to further limit some as yet unnamed additional aspect of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) powers. The president has already frozen the effective dates of dozens of EPA rules and also silenced most of the social networking of EPA staff.