Grassley Introduces Senate Legislation Targeting Environmental Consent Decrees

摘要

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and five other Republicans introduced legislation July 12 targeting "sue and settle" practices in which public interest and environmental groups take legal action against the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies to make existing regulations more protective or force agencies to expedite long-delayed rules. The Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2012 (S. 3382) is the Senate companion to a House bill that is among several Republican deregula-tory proposals slated for floor debate the week of July 23.