EPA Chief Touts Cost and Science Rules as Second-Term Goals

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler laid out plans to overhaul the way the agency assesses the costs, benefits and scientific justifications of environmental regulations.

• “I want to bring our environmental decision-making process out of the proverbial smoke-filled back room,” Wheeler said during a speech commemorating the EPA’s 50th anniversary at the Nixon Library
• Wheeler said the EPA would write new cost-benefit and science transparency regulations for all of its guiding statutes
  • The effort, which Wheeler said could unfold over a second term of President Trump, could make it harder to justify some pollution curbs under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water ...