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

#rollback #GHG #climate

#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

And now this from the Energy Department:

#DOE #Fridaynewsdump

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

It should also be noted that just yesterday, a somewhat different three-judge panel not only granted a similar abeyance request in litigation over updated air toxics standards for power plants, but called off oral arguments scheduled for next month:

#EPA #AirPollution

A little Friday afternoon news courtesy of the D.C. Circuit, where a three-judge panel has rejected EPA's request for a 60-day freeze on proceedings in litigation over the agency's latest "good neighbor" smog control plan:

#AirPollution #smog

In a motion filed Thursday evening with the D.C. Circuit, #EPA seeks a delay in oral arguments in litigation over a Biden-era update to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for coal-fired power plants: