The Hill Op-Ed: EPA Needs to Reinstate a Critical Environmental Tool Scrapped by Trump

Center for Progressive Reform 2022-02-24

Summary:

In its first year in office, the Biden administration has, to its credit, reversed a number of anti-environmental policies initiated by former President Donald Trump. Gone is the previous administration's infamous "two-for-one" policy, under which federal agencies had to eliminate two regulatory requirements for every new regulation they proposed. Numerous Trump-era initiatives that cut back needed air and water quality protections have also been rescinded. And, thankfully, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal agencies are once again focused on responding to the mounting dangers posed by the climate crisis. Given these steps forward, it is perplexing that the current administration has not yet restored a critical environmental tool that has proven workable and highly beneficial in past years: EPA's Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs).

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http://progressivereform.org/cpr-blog/hill-op-ed-epa-needs-reinstate-critical-environmental-tool-scrapped-trump/

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Authors:

Joel Mintz

Date tagged:

02/24/2022, 15:00

Date published:

02/24/2022, 14:00