The top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is redoubling his efforts to flip the script on deployment of Republicans’ favorite rule-removal tool.
With a series of four Congressional Review Act resolutions introduced Tuesday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island is seeking to repeal recent EPA regulatory decisions that bestow compliance breaks on two major steelmakers as well as the industry that makes the distilled form of coal known as coke used in steel manufacturing blast furnaces.
The resolutions also target the agency’s recent approvals of both a West Virginia haze reduction strategy that incorporates a laxer standard for assessing progress toward cleaner air in national parks and wilderness areas and a Florida rollback of requirements tied to a 2005 national smog control plan.
They join S.J.Res. 60, which Whitehouse introduced last month and takes aim at an EPA interim final rule that allows more smog-forming pollution from Indiana power plants.
