If the rules are issued in the waning days of Biden's first term, a future Republican-controlled Congress could overturn them using the Congressional Review Act.
The party-line vote is not likely to end Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s efforts to install Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist who led a rollback of Obama-era environmental regulations as Environmental Protection Agency chief under President Donald Trump.
With Joe Biden in office, a serious plan to combat climate change is finally in our sights — but the clock is ticking, and there is no more room for error.
Democrats said yesterday they are still considering using the Congressional Review Act to undo Trump environmental rollbacks, but the administration may be hesitant to deploy the rule-killing tool.
A National Geographic investigation has found that Permian Basin energy exploration could taint residential aquifers with pollutants—as well as Carlsbad Caverns and other cave systems.
