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Regulators rely on fossil fuel industry data. How often is it wrong? From Colorado to Texas, government officials are grappling with concerns about unreliable reports from oil and gas companies.

Regulators Rely On #FossilFuel Industry #Data. How Often Is It Wrong?

Shelb Webb reports for @eenews.bsky.social

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Trump EPA took eleventh-hour look at endangerment finding With just days remaining for the Trump administration, EPA reviewed the agency's foundational ruling underpinning its climate change rules. But in a

Here are my stories about how the last Trump EPA didn't end but *saved* the endangerment finding

I cite lots of #FOIA docs

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Of course, many of these people are now serving in this Trump admin — which just axed the finding

#FOIA4eva

E&E News: Trump admin reapproves cancer-tied pesticide targeted by MAHA EPA will allow continued use of dicamba, which some activists in the "Make America Healthy Again" movement wants banned.

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#dicamba

Final EPA rule grants coal ash dumps extra time to install ground monitoring EPA said its initial proposal for 15 extra months wasn't enough and instead is giving companies 33 additional months beyond deadlines set by the Biden

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Here’s what could happen when the endangerment finding dies States, courts and Congress could be forced to fill the climate policy vacuum.

I'm told that the endangerment finding repeal package lands next week. I look at what that could mean for other climate rules, state action, and the future of U.S. climate policy.

And on Signal at jchemnick.01, for any tips on when, where, etc.!

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ln the best tradition of the Friday afternoon news dump, #EPA has put out announcements on #coalash and #dicamba regs. Anything else coming or can we call it a day?

After plowing through briefs in litigation over the Clean Air Act's New Source Review program, I get the sense that NSR is a lot like the federal tax code: Important, complicated and increasingly porous.

#Airpollution

E&E News: EPA science advisers’ firings blasted as ‘politically motivated’ Left hanging are EPA reviews of lead, nitrogen oxides and ozone, three pollutants associated with serious health and environmental effects.

Noting that it's now been more than a year since #Trump administration appointees effectively dissolved two influential #EPA advisory panels: The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and the Science Advisory Board. Neither has been reconstituted: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

After cutting jobs last year, the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division is seeking roughly 25 "experienced litigators." One reason, presumably, is to help defend against legal challenges to Trump administration policies.

#DOJ #ENRD

And late Friday, #EPA posted the withdrawal rule: www.epa.gov/system/files...

#AirPollution

Federal judges should still throw a stopgap Clean Air Act rollback rule, environmental groups say, even though #EPA is withdrawing it:

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#cokeovens #airpollution

And yet @politico.com uses AI that sends glaring errors to our subscribers and violates our ethics standards.

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E&E News: EPA retreats on air pollution enforcement for Texas plant In a rule issued without public feedback, the agency is withdrawing from a clampdown on one of the nation’s leading sources of sulfur dioxide.

While President Trump is usually described as a populist, his appointees at #EPA have repeatedly skirted public notice and comment requirements. Here's the latest example: tinyurl.com/h2a99pkc

#opengov

E&E News: EPA suspends incinerator emission limits for disaster debris The agency turned to a procedural and obscure tool to dodge public input in waiving the standards for burning debris tied to natural disasters.

For the fifth time in two months, #EPA is resorting to a once rare rulemaking gambit to avoid advance public notice and comment requirements:
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#opengov #incineration

TODAY: PEN Guild heads to arbitration over POLITICO’s contract-breaking use of AI. This fight could set the standard for how AI is used in newsrooms across the country.

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#EPA, again resorting to a procedural ploy to avoid advance public notice requirements, has granted the coke (and we're not talking about the soft drink) industry a significant compliance break on stronger hazardous air pollutant regs: tinyurl.com/mrx97upz

#Opengov #AirPollution

ICYMI, #EPA sent this proposed rule to the White House regulations shop on Friday for a customary pre-publication review:

#rollback #GHG #climate

EPA science revamp calls for ‘much smaller’ office The agency said the new program would focus on “statutorily required functions” with teams that “have different goals, strategies, etc.”

New: A proposed #EPA science office would be "much smaller" than the agency's existing Office of Research and Development, per an internal email that provides much more detail on its structure than #EPA has publicly released. By Miranda Willson and me: www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

ICYMI, more than 1,300 #EPA employees have followed through on "early out" offers requiring them to go on paid leave starting today, per agency data. Safe to say that this is #EPA's biggest one-time exodus in decades, if not ever: tinyurl.com/2nw9595x

#EPA under Pres. Trump is set to publicly propose its first rollback of a major air rule following completion of a White House review. The rule's full repeal would save the power industry $860 million over a decade, lead to tons more toxic pollution, per an earlier EPA forecast:

Looks like congressional Republicans will again be exploring possible changes to the Clean Air Act with a hearing scheduled for next Wednesday. The immediate question is how far they want to go:

#AirPollution #CleanAirAct

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#Trump #science

E&E News: Democrats demand details on the future of EPA labs “It is time to tell the truth,” said House Science Committee ranking member Zoe Lofgren.

In an unusually caustic letter today, top Democrats on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee accuse #EPA political appointees of lying about plans for the agency's research labs: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

#ORD #Science #Zeldin

Trump orders major revamp of agencies’ handling of scientific research His executive order cites feds' handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change, among other issues, as contributing to the public's loss of faith in

Here's a short overview of the #Trump administration's new federal science policy, which comes with a requirement for agencies to relook #Biden-ere regulations. Much more to come when we next publish on Tuesday: tinyurl.com/mr3v3sh9

#science

And now this from the Energy Department:

#DOE #Fridaynewsdump

I.e., there's a reason it was released at about 4:50 on the Friday before a holiday weekend.

Restoring Gold Standard Science By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

In a new executive order, President Trump orders #EPA and other federal agencies to revert for now to the scientific integrity polices in place when he left office in January 2021. And there's much, much more: whitehouse.gov/presidential...

#science

After temporarily freezing implementation of strengthened hazardous air pollutant regs for some steel mills, #EPA is now advancing an interim final rule for the industry - thus far with no explanation of what the rule would do:

#AirPollution #steel

E&E News: EPA withholds records on jobs losing civil service safeguards The agency denied a Freedom of Information Act request for information on positions that could be more vulnerable to firing.

As #EPA again prepares to implement the #Trump administration policy originally known as Schedule F, the agency won't say how many employees could lose civil service job protections. By @KevinBogardus
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#FOIA #opengov #ScheduleF