Over the past two months EPN members worked with others in our network and with partner organizations to submit two sets of comments and four formal testimonies to EPA on proposed rule-makings, and continued to be a trusted source of information to reporters.
Highlights of this update:
- EPN worked collaboratively with Save EPA Ann Arbor to submit comments on the administration’s proposal to roll back critical greenhouse gas and fuel efficiency standards with the “SAFE” rule.
- EPN submitted comments on the administration’s proposal to replace the Clean Power Plan with the “ACE” rule, namely the proposed revisions to EPA’s implementing regulations for emissions guidelines
- EPN members were featured in dozens of media outlets and authored numerous op-eds on topics including the administration’s efforts to censor science, roll back TSCA and mercury regulations, disband the Particulate Matter Review Panel of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and gut the Risk Management Program Rule.
EPN’s Work on Vehicle Emissions Standards Rollbacks: SAFE
EPN and Save EPA Ann Arbor Comment on EPA’s Proposed Rollback of the Clean Car Standards
Proposed Regulatory Rollback of Clean Car Standards
EPA Alumni Testify: Proposed Rule Takes Vehicle Emissions Standards in Wrong Direction
SAFE In The News
State Officials, Valley Air Advocates Warn Against Proposed EPA Rule
Dan Reich, EPN member and former Assistant Regional Counsel, EPA Region 9, was interviewed on NPR’s Valley Public Radio/KVPR about the EPA’s proposed rollback of clean car standards with the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient Vehicles (SAFE) Rule.
Critics Bash Trump’s Rollback. Is Anyone Listening?
EPN members Trish Koman, PhD; Betsy Southerland; and Janet McCabe are quoted in this E&E News article on the EPA’s public hearing in Dearborn, MI, on the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles rule.
Stateside: Former EPA Official Condemns Mileage Rollback
Jeff Alson, EPN member and former EPA senior advisor who helped draft the national fuel economy standards, was interviewed on Stateside radio about his testimony in Dearborn, MI, against the Trump Administration’s SAFE rule.
EPN’s Work on Clean Power Plan Replacement: ACE Rule
EPN Comments on EPA’s Proposed Replacement of the Clean Power Plan
ACE In The News
Utilities Urge Clearer Guidance on EPA Power Rule Amid Public Outcry
EPN member Joseph Goffman, former Senior Counsel in the EPA Office of Air, is quoted in Bloomberg Law’s article on the EPA’s Oct. 1, 2018, public hearing on its proposed Affordable Clean Energy rule.
Critics: Clean Power Plan Replacement Would Weaken Air Protections
EPN member and former EPA Acting Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation Janet McCabe is quoted in this article on the Trump Administration’s proposed replacement of the Clean Power Plan, which could severely weaken air protections. McCabe encourages readers to take advantage of the public comments period on this important issue. Janet is also quoted in similar articles in Eagle Country 99.3 and WXPR.
Trump’s Proposal to Replace the Clean Power Plan Endangers Public Health and the World’s Climate
EPN member, former EPA Enforcement Attorney and Professor of Law Emeritus Joel Mintz criticizes the proposal to replace the Clean Power Plan as insufficient and far too weak.
EPN continued to work on key areas of interest
Our work continued to bring attention to a range of important ongoing topics, including Censored Science, TSCA, and other key areas
Censored Science: Attacks on Science
(April 2018-August 2018)
EPN Comments on Draft Problem Formulations for Asbestos, HBCD and Carbon Tetrachloride
More examples of EPN In The News
In addition to the news articles above, EPN members contributed to a range of articles on topics such as Coal Ash, the proposed overhaul of the Clean Power Plan, the California waiver and fuel efficiency standards, and Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler.
Administration Proposes Rolling Back Fuel Economy Standards
Margo Oge, former Director of the EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality and EPN member, describes the dangerous and lasting impacts of the administration’s proposed roll back of fuel economy standards.
As Florence Threatens Chemical Plants, Trump Administration Moves to Weaken Protections
EPN member Brendan Doyle, a former EPA policy analyst and senior policy advisor, wrote this op-ed for The Hill on the Trump administration’s move to gut the Risk Management Program Rule, which requires chemical companies and wastewater treatment plants to be ready for disasters like Hurricane Florence.
EPA’s Reversal of Environmental Protections Veers Badly Off Course
EPN member and former EPA Region 10 Regional Administrator Dennis McLerran wrote this op-ed in The Seattle Times about acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler’s two recent decisions—to freeze fuel-economy standards for cars and dramatically scale back an effort to reduce climate pollution from coal-fired power plants—taking the EPA in the wrong direction.
