While President Trump is usually described as a populist, his appointees at #EPA have repeatedly skirted public notice and comment requirements. Here's the latest example: tinyurl.com/h2a99pkc #opengov

For the fifth time in two months, #EPA is resorting to a once rare rulemaking gambit to avoid advance public notice and comment requirements: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... via @EENewsUpdates #opengov #incineration

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#EPA, again resorting to a procedural ploy to avoid advance public notice requirements, has granted the coke (and we're not talking about the soft drink) industry a significant compliance break on stronger hazardous air pollutant regs: tinyurl.com/mrx97upz #Opengov #AirPollution

ICYMI, #EPA sent this proposed rule to the White House regulations shop on Friday for a customary pre-publication review: #rollback #GHG #climate

New: A proposed #EPA science office would be "much smaller" than the agency's existing Office of Research and Development, per an internal email that provides much more detail on its structure than #EPA has publicly released. By Miranda Willson and me: www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

ICYMI, more than 1,300 #EPA employees have followed through on "early out" offers requiring them to go on paid leave starting today, per agency data. Safe to say that this is #EPA's biggest one-time exodus in decades, if not ever: tinyurl.com/2nw9595x

#EPA under Pres. Trump is set to publicly propose its first rollback of a major air rule following completion of a White House review. The rule's full repeal would save the power industry $860 million over a decade, lead to tons more toxic pollution, per an earlier EPA forecast:

Looks like congressional Republicans will again be exploring possible changes to the Clean Air Act with a hearing scheduled for next Wednesday. The immediate question is how far they want to go: #AirPollution #CleanAirAct

And here is Tuesday's story: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... #Trump #science

In an unusually caustic letter today, top Democrats on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee accuse #EPA political appointees of lying about plans for the agency's research labs: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... #ORD #Science #Zeldin

Here's a short overview of the #Trump administration's new federal science policy, which comes with a requirement for agencies to relook #Biden-ere regulations. Much more to come when we next publish on Tuesday: tinyurl.com/mr3v3sh9 #science

And now this from the Energy Department: #DOE #Fridaynewsdump

I.e., there's a reason it was released at about 4:50 on the Friday before a holiday weekend.

In a new executive order, President Trump orders #EPA and other federal agencies to revert for now to the scientific integrity polices in place when he left office in January 2021. And there's much, much more: whitehouse.gov/presidential... #science

After temporarily freezing implementation of strengthened hazardous air pollutant regs for some steel mills, #EPA is now advancing an interim final rule for the industry - thus far with no explanation of what the rule would do: #AirPollution #steel

As #EPA again prepares to implement the #Trump administration policy originally known as Schedule F, the agency won't say how many employees could lose civil service job protections. By @KevinBogardus and me: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... #FOIA #opengov #ScheduleF

It should also be noted that just yesterday, a somewhat different three-judge panel not only granted a similar abeyance request in litigation over updated air toxics standards for power plants, but called off oral arguments scheduled for next month: #EPA #AirPollution

A little Friday afternoon news courtesy of the D.C. Circuit, where a three-judge panel has rejected EPA's request for a 60-day freeze on proceedings in litigation over the agency's latest "good neighbor" smog control plan: #AirPollution #smog

The Research Triangle Institute, a North Carolina-based non-profit that contracts with #EPA and other federal agencies, announces more than 200 layoffs stemming from the halt to foreign aid funding: rti.org/news/rti-int... #RTI #DOGE #layoffs

In a motion filed Thursday evening with the D.C. Circuit, #EPA seeks a delay in oral arguments in litigation over a Biden-era update to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for coal-fired power plants: