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EPA gearing up for regulatory review
The Environmental Protection Agency is gearing up for a wide-ranging internal review of its various regulations to ensure they are not “outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome.”
EPA said Friday it is seeking public input as to how it
should structure a plan to review its regulations. The agency will hold a
public meeting on its regulatory review plan in Washington on March 14.
“These outreach efforts will allow the public to provide EPA with feedback on specific issues, impacts or programs,” EPA said in statement.
The review will likely give opponents of EPA’s climate regulations, which began phasing-in in January, another opportunity to bash the rules. Republicans have said EPA should scrap plans to impose new climate regulations under the review, but the agency has said it is “confident” that a review of its climate rules will show they “pass muster” under a regulatory-review framework mandated by President Obama.
The EPA review is part of an administration-wide plan outlined by Obama last month. Under the Obama’s new regulatory framework, federal agencies must review current regulations and ensure upcoming regulations meet new standards regarding transparency, science and economic impact.
The agency’s review plan, which will outline the regulations the agency plans to take a second look at, will be released in late May.
