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Published: Monday, February 1, 2021
EPA building. Photo credit: Francis Chung/E&E News
EPA headquarters in Washington. Francis Chung/E&E News
This story was updated at 4:16 p.m. EST.
At the request of the Biden administration, a federal court today tossed out a Trump-era rule limiting the use of science to craft EPA regulations.
Today s order by Chief Judge Brian Morris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana follows a plea yesterday by President Biden s EPA to scrap the rule and send the issue back to the agency for further consideration.
The judge found last week the Trump administration could not speed up the rule s effective date and expressed significant doubt that EPA had properly promulgated the rule.
Published: Wednesday, December 30, 2020
David Bernhardt. Photo credit: Francis Chung/E&E News
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt on Capitol Hill in March. Francis Chung/E&E News
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt started off 2020 empowering his most controversial public lands deputy, a move that a federal judge later deemed unlawful. He s ending the year in quarantine, having tested positive for COVID-19.
In between these bleak-sounding bookends, the 51-year-old Bernhardt rewrote how the Interior Department works. While the results get mixed reviews, and in some cases may get erased by the incoming Biden administration, 2020 was undeniably consequential for the department.
Endangered Species Act rules changed. Refuge hunting opportunities expanded. The Bureau of Land Management s headquarters moved. Some environmental protections were loosened. Ethics officers were reinforced, tribal trust responsibilities were reconfigured and workers got sent home.