War on Science

"Trump's nightmarish giveaway to polluters will sicken millions of the most vulnerable people across this country."

"The EPA uses this global pandemic to create loopholes for destroying the environment. This is a schoolbook example for what we need to start looking out for."

Denying a Biden administration request to temporarily retain the rule, the judge reestablished "the careful balance of state and federal power to protect clean water that Congress intended when it wrote the Clean Water Act."

The move, said Administrator Michael Regan, "will ensure the agency receives the best possible scientific insight to support our work to protect human health and the environment."

"Science matters again, and it will again guide how to best protect people from dangerous pollution and toxic chemicals."

"This decision frees up the new Biden administration to begin working immediately on the science-based greenhouse pollution rules we desperately need to make up for lost time."

More broadly, campaigners are calling on the incoming president to deliver on the environmental justice promises he made as a candidate.

"In the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans are more keenly aware than ever of the need to take care of our health."

"This is an egregious 11th-hour attempt to handcuff the incoming administration and undercut the benefits of clean air—in the worst days of a global health crisis."