Section 3 · The General Welfare
🌱Ch. 13 — Environmental Protection Agency
EPA · 16 tracked
Day One EO for pause-and-review teams and major EPA reorganization
Proposed
Mandate directs a Day One EO reconsidering EPA structure with pause-and-review teams for major rules, petitions, advocacy grants, sue-and-settle cases, personnel downsizing, unauthorized activities budget cuts, and risk-management guidance (social cost of carbon, discount rates, LNT, etc.).
Eliminate stand-alone Environmental Justice office; pause EJ and Title VI actions
Proposed
Mandate returns environmental justice to the Administrator’s office, eliminates the stand-alone EJ/External Civil Rights office, and separately calls for pausing/reviewing ongoing EJ and Title VI actions.
Eliminate stand-alone OECA; return enforcement to media offices
Proposed
Mandate eliminates the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance as stand-alone, returns enforcement to air/water/land offices, and reframes enforcement as compliance-first rather than extrastatutory objectives—plus regional air enforcement needing OAR approval.
Issue WOTUS rule limited to relatively permanent waters per Rapanos; seek codification
Proposed
Mandate seeks a WOTUS rule clarifying navigable waters, respecting property rights, and coordinating with Congress to codify the Rapanos relatively permanent waters test versus intermittent dry channels.
Narrow CWA §401 certifications to discharge-only water-quality factors
Proposed
Mandate wants a rule limiting Section 401 reviews to point-source discharges into navigable waters, specific CWA water-quality factors, and excluding speculative future-harm analysis that delays projects.
Confine California CAA waiver to California-specific criteria pollutants—not GHGs
Proposed
Mandate restores the position that California’s waiver applies only to California-specific issues like ground-level ozone, not global climate, and that other states may adopt California standards only for traditional/criteria pollutants, not GHGs.
Remove GHGRP for unregulated sources; update 2009 endangerment finding; set GHG SER
Proposed
Mandate would strip Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program obligations from unregulated source categories, establish a deadline to update the 2009 endangerment finding, and set a significant emissions rate for GHGs.
Loosen regional haze timelines and reverse Good Neighbor expansion beyond power plants
Proposed
Mandate revisits the 2064 natural-visibility goal, prevents haze rules from forcing disfavored facility shutdowns, reviews Good Neighbor overcontrol, reverses 2022 expansion beyond power plants, and cabins §126 petitions and error-correction coercion.
Put GHG car standards under DOT lead; include EV lifecycle impacts; stop ICAO ratchets
Proposed
Mandate wants GHG vehicle standards under DOT leadership considering cost/choice/safety/security, review of ramp rates, inclusion of EV lifecycle emissions/impacts, and stopping ICAO-driven airplane standard increases, plus reconsidering Cleaner Trucks Initiative burdens.
Restore CAA §111 limits: predicate findings for new pollutants; flexible §111(d) federalism
Proposed
Mandate restores the position that EPA cannot regulate a new pollutant from an already regulated category without predicate findings, auto-withdraws stale proposals, and revises §111(d) implementing rules for source-specific, state-deferential plans.
Restore Once-In Always-In exit; fix NSR/Title V PTE and petition abuses
Proposed
Mandate develops permitting reforms so efficiency improvements do not trigger new permits, restores Trump Once-In Always-In conversion from major to area sources, revisits 8760-hour PTE assumptions, defends limits on Title V objection petitions, and clarifies NSR–Title V relationship.
Modernize Superfund NCP; expand removals; revisit PFAS CERCLA hazardous designation
Proposed
Mandate pushes NCP modernization, more CERCLA removals, streamlined ARARs, groundwater policy updates for ubiquitous PFAS, revisiting PFAS hazardous-substance designation, PRP-led five-year reviews, Mountains/Deserts/Plains office for abandoned mines, and a 10-year lead cleanup plan.
Reset science advisory boards; open-source science; restore guidance portal
Proposed
Mandate’s back-to-basics principles and AO reforms demand public comment on scientific studies supporting rules, resetting advisory boards for viewpoint diversity without conflicts, and restoring the guidance portal for clarity.
Stop advocacy-group grants; reassess sue-and-settle with public participation
Proposed
Mandate’s pause-and-review agenda stops grants to advocacy groups, reviews which federal investments yield tangible environmental improvements, and reassesses sue-and-settle cases with new public notice/participation policy.
Repeal unnecessarily stringent AIM Act HFC implementing regulations
Proposed
Mandate would repeal Biden AIM Act implementing rules seen as unnecessarily stringent/costly, refuse opportunistic petitions for new restrictions, and require realistic consumer cost assessments.
Discipline CAA cost-benefit: targeted pollutant benefits primary; co-benefits separate
Proposed
Across OAR, Mandate requires consistent transparent cost consideration, appropriate discount rates, focusing benefits on the congressionally targeted pollutant, separately identifying co-benefits, acknowledging quantification uncertainty, updating RACT cost guidance, and obeying CAA §321 employment evaluations.