Despite the absence of climate rule names in President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders, Bracewell’s Jeff Holmstead told E&E News that it should not hinder the president’s efforts to roll them back.
“I think the executive orders, more than anything else, are a way for an administration to sort of tout its agenda,” said Holmstead.
He added that the administration may have “wanted a little bit more time to get their arms around” regulatory targets because the outgoing Biden administration left them with a glut of rules that met the criteria of being costly and burdensome to industry.