EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy is defending the legality of major EPA rules including its pending revised ozone standard and power plant greenhouse gas (GHG) standards as well as its recently finalized Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule, while Republicans look to use fiscal year 2016 funding legislation to block the policies. Speaking at a July 7 "Recharge Discussion" hosted by the Christian Science Monitor (CSM) in Washington, D.C., McCarthy suggested that the upcoming and final rules will withstand legal challenges because, she said, there is a sound legal and scientific basis for the regulations. If industry groups and other critics of the rules fail with their lawsuits, then one of the only options they have left to block the rules is for Congress to pass bills with that goal.
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