Trump administration plans to restrict new regulations will not stop the EPA from issuing rules required under a major rewrite last year of the nation’s primary chemicals law, an agency lawyer said.
While two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump restrict federal agencies from issuing proposed or final regulations, EPA is required by the Frank Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (Pub. L. No. 114-182) to publish new rules on managing chemicals, said Robert Peachey, associate counsel at EPA’s region 5 office in Chicago.
He spoke May 4 at the Illinois Environmental Law Conference sponsored ...
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