With the Trump administration poised to roll back rules on smog and drilling off Alaska and the east coast, environmental campaigners are ready for legal actionEnvironmental campaigners promised on Saturday to wage fierce and protracted legal battles against “outrageous and wrong-headed” Trump administration moves to open Atlantic and Arctic waters for drilling and loosen smog limits. On Friday, attorneys for the government asked a federal court in Washington to delay a key case so the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could review its stance on rules capping smog pollution. The Trump administration has made no official indication of its position on the smog rule, so when justice department attorneys requested “adequate time to fully review” the government’s position, campaigners received a powerful signal. It appears that the Trump administration is undeterred. Doniger added that Obama’s ban on new drilling in the Atlantic and the Arctic would be particularly difficult to overturn.

Source: The Guardian April 09, 2017 11:00 UTC