Former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials are warning that the timing of the Office of Air and Radiation’s (OAR) reorganization will be “disruptive” and might undermine the Trump administration’s aggressive push to rescind a suite of Biden-era rules this year.
Speaking to Inside EPA, Bracewell’s Jeff Holmstead, who ran OAR during the George W. Bush administration, said that there is “a real tension between meaningful regulatory reform and dramatically reducing the size of the agency.” Holmstead noted that the success of the effort “won’t be known for another six to eight months when we see proposals.”
