Ricketts Praises EPA’s Deregulation Announcement: “Common-Sense is Back”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, praised the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after it announced 31 deregulatory actions. Ricketts said the following:

“Biden’s EPA was a rogue agency. It disregarded the Supreme Court’s ruling and attempted to subvert our laws. It consistently overrode the concerns of farmers, ranchers, and small business owners across the country. Our producers deserve clear, consistent standards, not overregulation. Today’s announcement proves that common-sense is back. This is what unleashing American energy looks like.”

Among the actions announced were:

• Reconsideration of the so-called “Clean Power Plan 2.0” which added burdensome regulations on power plants;
• Reconsideration of regulations and standards targeting fossil fuels;
• Reconsideration of mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting (GHG) Program that imposed significant costs on the American energy supply;
• Reconsideration of light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty vehicle regulations that provided the foundation for the Biden-Harris electric vehicle (EV) mandate;
• Overhauling Biden-Harris Administration’s “Social Cost of Carbon”;
• Redirecting enforcement resources to EPA’s core mission to relieve the economy of unnecessary bureaucratic burdens that drive up costs for American consumers;
• Terminating Biden’s Environmental Justice and DEI arms of the agency (EJ/DEI);
• Ending the so-called “Good Neighbor Plan” which the Biden-Harris Administration used to expand federal rules to more states and sectors and attacked our domestic natural gas industry.