“조 바이든(Joe Biden) 대통령 당선자가 지구 난방 배출을 줄이기 시작하는 가장 빠른 방법은 규제를 통할 것입니다., 공화당이 상원을 장악하려는 태세를 보이면서, dimming hopes of Congress passing sweeping climate legislation. But three rules the Environmental Protection Agency is on course to finalize before the Jan. 20 inauguration could slow the incoming Biden administration’s efforts with procedural snags and by providing legal avenues for companies to challenge new limits on pollution. By December, the agency plans to complete its so-called “science transparency” rule prohibiting EPA regulators from citing the vast body of public health research that relies on anonymous patients’ medical data. Another proposed rule, expected in the coming weeks, would limit the agency’s ability to consider the co-benefits regulations on air pollution offer, such as fewer deaths and sick days, giving more weight to concerns over the compliance costs to industry. The Trump EPA may push to make those two rules effective immediately, steeling them against the post-inauguration memorandum in which Biden would be able to halt and quash last-minute regulations that had yet to take effect. The third rule, set to go into effect on Nov. 18, will change the EPA’s procedures on dealing with guidance documents ― its interpretations of the agency’s legal mandate under laws passed by Congress. Under the new rule, EPA will be required to respond to any request to rescind, reinstate or modify any guidance ever issued within 90 days or face lawsuits that one former official warned would “paralyze” the agency. Drew Angerer via Getty Images President Donald Trump looks on as Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks at an event at the White House. As Trump continues to refuse to publicly concede his loss to Joe Biden, the EPA appears set to erect more hurdles the new administration will face in its efforts to combat climate change. “All three of these rules are litigation bait for industry,” said Andrew Rosenberg, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Center for Science and Democracy. “They give industry many more opportunities to challenge rules that would protect the public.” The EPA said it plans to enact all three rules by the end of December. “We are confident by years end Americans will have greater access to the scientific data, cost information, and underlying guidance that drives Agency actions,” James Hewitt, an EPA spokesperson, said in an email. “Any administration should support the transparency and clarity that will be facilitated by these rules are an excellent foundation for good governance and public trust.” Reversing the three rules should be a top priority for the Biden administration, said Elizabeth “Betsy” Southerland, the former science and technology director of the EPA’s Office of Water who spent three decades at the agency. “They need to get those off the record immediately," 그녀가 말했다. The new administration will have legal options. Democratic state attorneys general and environmental groups are expected to sue to block the first two rules. The Biden Department of Justice would likely decline to defend the rules. None of this will last. It’s almost gratuitous obstructionism by a defeated administration to try to throw speed bumps in the way of progressive action. Michael Gerrard, director of Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law The new administration could also ask courts to vacate the rules, said Michael Gerrard, the director of Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Regardless, he said revoking the rules “is basically a done deal.” “None of this will last,” Gerrard said. “It’s almost gratuitous obstructionism by a defeated administration to try to throw speed bumps in the way of progressive action.” Another, possibly faster option to the efforts in courts would be to ask Congress to revoke the rules under the Congressional Review Act (CRA). But doing so would eliminate the EPA’s legal authority to make similar rules in the future. If Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress, Biden’s allies could cancel the rules under the law and pass subsequent legislation restoring the agency’s mandate. But a GOP-controlled Senate makes that unlikely. “The CRA is a dangerous instrument,” Rosenberg said. “It’s just a bad law.” In the face of mounting environmental crises, Biden’s pick to head the EPA will likely spend much of their first few years in the post reversing several regulatory rollbacks that have been a hallmark of the Trump administration and seeking to attract scientists and researchers who quit amid meddling by Republican political appointees. Ramping up air pollution limits, capping carbon emissions from power plants and increasing fuel economy standards for new vehicles could “take two to four years, because it’s not a simple repeal, it’s an actual replacement,” Sutherland said By the time any of those changes could come into effect, the pending procedural rules will almost certainly be off the books. To take effect, the regulations on science transparency and public health co-benefits will need to be published on the Federal Register under a certain timetable, and that could be delayed in favor of other agencies seeking to cement last-minute rules. “The question is who’s going to throw their weight around ― another agency might take precedence and pages away from EPA,” said Ann Weeks, the legal director at the nonprofit Clean Air Task Force. “Publication in the Federal Register is one of those mysteries that we all try to divine.” The third rule ― the one on guidance ― could either be revoked through the courts if it faces a legal challenge or rescinded through the rulemaking process, Gerrard said. “The next administration is not going to have a problem” getting rid of the regulations, said David Hayes, the executive director of New York University School of Law’s State Energy & Environmental Impact Center. “These rules are not consistent with the law.”
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