EPA’s Regan Sees Urgency in New Rules Despite Legal Headwinds

The EPA is urgently updating regulations to address climate change without regard to the Congressional Review Act, even as the agency faces legal headwinds, administrator Michael Regan said Friday.

“My general philosophy on the CRA is that’s sort of secondary for me,” Regan said, speaking at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference in Philadelphia. “The primary driver for me is the sense of urgency we face in terms of impacts of climate change.”

The Environmental Protection Agency is trying revise regulations as quickly as possible, he said. While others are focused on how Congress might use the CRA to ...