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Loose Change: Wheeler warns of tough rules from ‘future administration’

December 2, 2020
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is warning that a “future administration” could issue tough new environmental regulations on the energy and manufacturing sectors, arguing that new rules could be crafted to target “specific industries” while declining to name President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration. “I said, 'You don't have to ban something in order to regulate it to death.' This is exactly what the previous administration did to the coal industry, and it is a road map for what a future administration...


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