EPA Still Working on Rules Not Tied to Virus, Wheeler Says (1)

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said the agency is still trying to push out rules that aren’t tied to the new coronavirus pandemic—whenever the White House is ready to review them.

In an interview Thursday, Wheeler said the Environmental Protection Agency hasn’t paused work on any of its priority regulations. These include dealing with its reworking of the mercury rule to eliminate the legal basis for restricting mercury air pollution from coal-fired power plants; and listing of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, as hazardous substances under the Superfund law.

The EPA is pushing ahead despite a nationwide social distancing order ...