Updates | The Week of January 22, 2018
Derek Reinbold // 1/28/18 //
Despite Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s statement that Florida would be excluded from a new regulation allowing increased offshore oil drilling, the Department of the Interior has not taken any action to exclude Florida (The Hill).
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a unified national automobile emissions standard, which may preempt California’s stricter standard (The Hill).
California is challenging the Interior Department’s repeal of standards for fracking on federal land (The Hill).
A new tariff on solar cells and modules threatens the success of the solar industry (NYT).
The Trump administration has a negative impact on environmental protection and regulatory economics, according to Daniel Farber at The Regulatory Review.