Senate Democrats Float Pandemic-Related Attacks On EPA Rollbacks

Update appended Ahead of EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s May 20 appearance before the Senate environment committee, panel Democrats are issuing sharp criticism of more than half a dozen recent agency air policy rollbacks advanced in the past two months, linking them to worsened health outcomes from the coronavirus pandemic. A Democratic staff report released May 20 , “A Pandemic of Pollution,” is highlighting both the substantive and political effect of the virus outbreak on environmental policy debates. “Since the...