{"id":25817,"date":"2025-04-11T17:09:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25817"},"modified":"2025-04-11T17:25:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:25:57","slug":"trumps-new-way-to-kill-regulations-because-i-say-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25817","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s New Way to Kill Regulations: Because I Say So"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump this week directed 10 federal agencies \u2014 including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Energy Department and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission \u2014 to implement a novel procedure<\/a> to scrap a wide array of longstanding energy and environmental regulations.<\/p>\n

He told agencies that oversee everything from gas pipelines to power plants to insert \u201csunset\u201d provisions that would cause regulations to automatically expire by October 2026. If the agencies wanted to keep a rule, it could only be extended for a maximum of five years at a time.<\/p>\n

Experts say the directive faces enormous legal hurdles. But it was one of three executive orders from Mr. Trump on Wednesday in which he declared that he was pursuing new shortcuts to weaken or eliminate regulations.<\/p>\n

In another order<\/a>, he directed a rollback of federal rules that limit the water flow in shower heads with a highly unusual legal justification: Because I say so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cNotice and comment is unnecessary because I am ordering the repeal,\u201d Mr. Trump\u2019s order said.<\/p>\n

Legal experts called that sentence astonishing and contrary to decades of federal law. The 1946 Administrative Procedure Act<\/a> requires federal agencies to go through a lengthy \u201cnotice and comment\u201d process when they issue, revise or repeal major rules, giving the public a chance to weigh in. Agencies that do not follow those procedures often find their actions blocked by the courts.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn its face, all of this is totally illegal,\u201d said Jody Freeman, the director of the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program <\/strong>and a former White House official under President Barack Obama. \u201cEither the real lawyers have left the building or they just don\u2019t care and want to take a flier on all these cases and see if the courts will bite.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Trump this week directed 10 federal agencies \u2014 including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Energy Department and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission \u2014 to implement a novel procedure to scrap a wide array of longstanding energy and environmental regulations.He told agencies that oversee everything from gas pipelines to power plants to insert \u201csunset\u201d provisions that would cause regulations to automatically expire by October 2026. If the agencies wanted to keep a rule, it could only be extended for a maximum of five years at a time.Experts say the directive faces enormous legal hurdles. But it was one of three executive orders from Mr. Trump on Wednesday in which he declared that he was pursuing new shortcuts to weaken or eliminate regulations.In another order, he directed a rollback of federal rules that limit the water flow in shower heads with a highly unusual legal justification: Because I say so.\u201cNotice and comment is unnecessary because I am ordering the repeal,\u201d Mr. Trump\u2019s order said.Legal experts called that sentence astonishing and contrary to decades of federal law. The 1946 Administrative Procedure Act requires federal agencies to go through a lengthy \u201cnotice and comment\u201d process when they issue, revise or repeal major rules, giving the public a chance to weigh in. Agencies that do not follow those procedures often find their actions blocked by the courts.\u201cOn its face, all of this is totally illegal,\u201d said Jody Freeman, the director of the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program and a former White House official under President Barack Obama. \u201cEither the real lawyers have left the building or they just don\u2019t care and want to take a flier on all these cases and see if the courts will bite.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25819,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25820,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817\/revisions\/25820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}