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President Trump is proposing deep budget cuts for many government agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency would take the most dramatic hit, and many states are worried. The EPA gives a lot of its money to states as grants. Marie Cusick of StateImpact Pennsylvania reports that many state environmental departments are already strapped.
http://apr.org/post/cash-strapped-state-environmental-agencies-brace-budget-cuts#stream/0 D.C. Circuit grants EPA’s request to delay smog rule case Washington Post
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acted improperly when it exempted most farms from air pollution reporting requirements for emissions from animals waste, a court ruled.
The EPA in 2008, under former President George W. Bush, carved out an exemption to reporting requirements for a majority of farms for the pollutants — mostly ammonia and hydrogen sulfide — emitted by animal waste.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/328265-court-epa-cant-exempt-farms-from-air-pollution-reporting Energy Star labels are seen as a cheap way to improve efficiency. Why does Trump want to kill them? LA Times
On March 29, Scott Pruitt, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, denied a petition asking for a ban on the use of an insecticide called Chlorpyrifos. The petitioners, Pesticide Action Network and the Natural Resources Defense Council, cited studies show that Chlorpyrifos can have serious health consequences, such as damaging the nervous system of infants and children.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/04/12/why-did-scott-pruitt-refuse-to-ban-a-chemical-that-the-epa-itself-said-is-dangerous/?utm_term=.2732eaccb013 Press Releases
The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council (Council) is proposing to amend its Initial Funded Priorities List (FPL) to make the State of Louisiana the direct recipient of the full funding amount previously approved for the Lowermost Mississippi River Management Program. As approved in December 2015, the Lowermost Mississippi River Management Program provided for a 50/50 division of $9,300,000 in planning funds between the State of Louisiana and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Council is now considering providing the full amount of approved funding to the State of Louisiana in order to expedite this program. Consistent with Section 4.3.3 of the Council’s Standard Operating Procedures, the Council is required to provide the public seven days notice in advance of the Council’s vote to approve or disapprove this proposed amendment.
Learn more about the
Initial Funded Priorities List or the
RESTORE Council.
Regulatory Reform Underway at EPA
04/11/2017
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WASHINGTON -- As a vital step of EPA’s implementation of President Trump’s Executive Order, “
Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda,” EPA’s Regulatory Reform Task Force, led by the Office of Policy, submitted a Federal Register notice today to solicit public comments on EPA regulations.
“We are supporting the restoration of America’s economy through extensive reviews of the misaligned regulatory actions from the past administration. The previous administration abused the regulatory process to advance an ideological agenda that expanded the reach of the federal government, often dismissing the technological and economic concerns raised by the regulated community and duplicating long-standing regulations by states and localities. Moving forward, EPA will be listening to those directly impacted by regulations, and learning ways we can work together with our state and local partners, to ensure that we can provide clean air, land, and water to Americans,” said Administrator Scott Pruitt.
The notice will include a docket that all EPA program offices will use to collect comments specific to their issues. EPA’s Regulatory Reform Task Force is simultaneously working with program offices to gather their recommendations for specific rules that should be considered for repeal, replacement or modification. EPA regional offices, program offices, and other officials will report back by May 15, 2017.
EPA also launched a new webpage with information related to the agency’s regulatory reform efforts, which will include a list of upcoming meetings being held by the offices at:
https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/regulatory-reform. The docket number for public input is EPA-HQ-OA-2017-0190
