With a Democratic majority – however slim – in both houses of Congress, the administration could also look to Capitol Hill for help. There are other avenues the Biden administration could pursue, though. The bulk of the Biden team’s nine-page list may be complicated to rescind or reverse because the Trump administration wrote them into formal regulations. The administration also overturned through legal memorandum a 25-year-old policy protecting the sand along protected shoreline from being sold off. Some of the policies may be easier than others to halt, prevent from taking effect, or overturn.Ī May 2020 policy on mineral ownership in part of North Dakota, for example, was a legal memorandum, and could be reversed with an updated legal memorandum by Biden appointees. His energy secretary overturned a tightening of lightbulb rules after the President told his crowds new lightbulb technology are the reason “I always look orange.” Included on the list are several changes to household utilities that Trump touted at his rallies.Įnergy efficiency limits, he said, complicated washing his “beautiful hair properly” under weak showerheads, and drew complaints and rendered dishwashers ineffective.
It also targets the administration’s decision that would allow roads and logging in a pristine part of the country’s largest national forest, and Trump’s changes that would gum up the process of protecting vulnerable flora and fauna with the Endangered Species Act. The list for review includes a policy President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency called “the largest deregulatory initiative of this administration”: the replacement of Obama-era fuel efficiency rules for cars. Many items on the list are key targets of criticism by the environmental groups that accused the Trump administration of disregarding the hazards of climate change and being overly sympathetic to the wishes of industry. Each of the policies relate to environmental conservation and climate change and are linked to an executive order Biden intends to sign on public health and the environment. Among incoming President Joe Biden’s Day One priorities: Begin rolling back climate and environmental policies of the Trump administration, many of which were rollbacks of Obama-era or earlier rules.īiden’s advisers have compiled a list of more than 100 rules and policies developed by the Trump administration that it sees as targets for review, CNN has learned.
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