Congress Urged To Ease EPA Rule Deadlines To Prevent 'Sue And Settle'

摘要

House Judiciary Committee members are weighing a call to ease Clean Air Act rulemaking deadlines and citizen suit provisions as a way to curb what EPA critics call environmentalists' "sue and settle" strategy of filing litigation against the agency that results in settlement agreements setting deadlines for the agency to write new rules. Andrew Grossman, an adjunct scholar at the free-market advocacy Cato Institute, said at a recent House judiciary panel regulatory review subcommittee hearing that pending bills seeking boost third party involvement in settlement talks and bolster public input mandates on the pacts do not go far enough. In his testimony, he said that Congress should overhaul the statutes that set deadlines environmentalist groups invoke in lawsuits against EPA.