POLITCO-CLIMATEWIRE: In a piece on EPA’s regulatory schedule and its impact on power plant emissions rules, reporter Jean Chemnick spoke to Abt’s Larry Weinstock. Asked why EPA would implement an unexpectedly elongated timeline, Larry explained that the regulatory process is sometimes necessarily deliberative. Given the transition between presidential administration, the need to allow for public commenting, and pending Supreme Court decision, “In a lot of ways it would have been unreasonable for them to have gone out with much of anything last year — certainly not anything serious.”
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