Yet another chance for a long-troubled oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Strengthened controls for one of the highest-polluting power plants in the United States. A pivotal review of national smog standards.
Those are just a handful of the Clean Air Act policies and regulations that a renascent Trump administration will soon have the power to approve, shape or reject.
“EPA is going to be pretty active, I imagine,” said Bob Meyers, who served as the agency’s acting air chief under former President George W. Bush and is now a partner in the law firm of Crowell & Moring.
The easiest pickings will be proposals or rules finalized soon before President-elect Donald Trump takes office again on Jan. 20. The first can simply be scrapped; the second are subject to repeal under the Congressional Review Act, a task that will become much easier if Republicans wind up with control of both the House and Senate.
