The Trump administration is delaying, and potentially scrapping, rules it issued in May that would rescind civil rights and sex discrimination regulations in sports and education programs after receiving “significant” public pushback.
The Department of Energy on Monday revealed in regulatory filings that it won’t implement four direct final rules that were slated to take effect Monday until mid-September because the agency had received tens of thousands of negative comments on the plan.
“Because DOE subsequently received significant adverse comments on that direct final rule, DOE is extending the effective date to consider comments submitted in response,” DOE wrote in the Federal Register.
The DOE rules emerged as a lightning rod among civil rights groups, states and other advocates after they were published in May.
