EPA Administrator Announces Rollback of Obama-Era Energy Regulations
“Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced at Pittsburgh’s Energy Innovation Center on Thursday that the EPA will remove ‘ineffective and duplicative’ regulations on oil and natural gas companies,” reports Manny Marotta in Jurist.
“The announcement adheres to President Donald Trump’s 2017 executive order on promoting energy independence and economic growth, which states ‘[i]t is in the national interest to promote clean and safe development of our Nation’s vast energy resources, while at the same time avoiding regulatory burdens that unnecessarily encumber energy production, constrain economic growth, and prevent job creation.'”
