EPA is issuing an interim final rule rescinding the controversial 11thhour Trump-era regulation that limits the scope of benefits that can be considered in Clean Air Act (CAA) rulemakings, a policy environmentalists warned would make it harder to justify stricter agency air rules and which the Biden administration now says was "unnecessary." In a May 13 statement, EPA says that it reviewed the cost-benefit rule, as directed by President Joe Biden's Jan. 21 executive order (EO) requiring the agency to assess various Trump administration environmental actions, and found that it "imposed procedural restrictions and requirements that would have limited EPA's ability to use the best available science in developing Clean Air Act regulations, and would be inconsis-tent with economic best practices."
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