Biden revving up climate regs before election
By ARIANNA SKIBELL 06/14/2023 05:59 PM EDT
It’s policy crunch time for the White House.
As next year’s presidential election draws near, the Biden administration is trying to carry out a suite of energy and climate priorities that are already drawing attacks from Republican lawmakers.
The first half of 2024 is promising to be one of the busiest regulatory periods of President Joe Biden’s presidency, according to the administration’s semiannual rulemaking agenda released Tuesday.
Among the administration’s goals are regulating natural-gas-burning stoves and methane emissions, speeding up the deployment of clean energy projects, cleaning up planet-warming pollution from buildings and protecting public lands in Alaska, where the White House recently green-lighted a massive oil project.
In a notable departure from recent past agendas, the administration has pushed up the deadlines for several regulations. That could be an effort to insulate rules from repeal should Republicans take control of Congress and the White House in the 2024 election, said James Goodwin, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Progressive Reform.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2023/06/14/biden-revving-up-climate-regs-before-election-00082767
