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Environmental Advocates Protest Outside EPA Headquarters Over the Slow Pace of New Climate and Clean Air Regulations
Policy experts express cautious optimism that new, lasting regulations are imminent.
By Phil McKenna, Emma Ricketts
As supporters and opponents of Donald Trump traded chants of “Lock him up” and “USA” outside a Manhattan courtroom during the arraignment of the former president, protesters outside the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C. had a more modest request for an agency Trump once tried to gut: “Do your job.”
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More than 30 years after the last major update of the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Supreme Court has upended the ability of Congress to give the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies broad scope to combat air pollution, including the emission of greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, further Biden administration efforts to limit emissions face opposition in the courts.