Critics Pushing Legislative Efforts To Undercut EPA Florida Nutrient Rule

摘要

Critics of EPA's numeric nutrient criteria for Florida waters are pushing new legislative measures to reverse the rule including a GOP attempt to use a Congressional Review Act (CRA) disapproval resolution to undo the rule and an effort in the state legislature to block Florida environmental officials from implementing EPA's criteria.Environmentalists supportive of the criteria counter that the legislative efforts are misguided and unlikely to succeed, predicting insufficient support for the CRA resolution and arguing that the state bill would violate the U.S. Constitution. Proponents of the criteria are meanwhile seeking an independent economic analysis of the criteria to counter claims by regulated industries that the standards will prove too expensive to implement.