U.S. Chamber Vows to Challenge Regulations, Push Pro-Energy Policy in Obama's Last Year

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During the last year of the Obama administration, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will focus on challenging regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies, while advocating for expanding the domestic energy sector, the Chamber's top official said. Thomas Donohue, president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Chamber, said Jan. 14 that one of the business trade group's top priorities for 2016 is to "vigorously challenge" regulations and work to overhaul the regulatory system. During his annual State of American Business address, Donohue repeatedly mentioned EPA rules as an example of "overregulation" that the Chamber will work against. "The current administration is on a regulatory tear, and this will continue until the day the moving van backs up to the door at the White House next January," Donohue said. "It has unleashed a runaway EPA that is stretching the law, and in some cases breaking it, in order to assume control over local economic development across America."