The Supreme Court has overruled its 40-year-old Chevron doctrine granting deference to OSHA and other agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous statutory language, scrapping a principle that was the basis for countless decisions on the lawfulness of agency rules, guidance and other actions.
September 16, 2026
Lee Logan
Lee Logan is Chief Editor for Inside EPA/climate, which is Inside EPA’s exclusive publication for climate change and clean energy policy. He has worked at Inside EPA since 2013 and previously covered local government and politics for the Tampa Bay Times. He grew up in Austin, TX, and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri.
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Critics of President Donald Trump’s latest deregulatory executive order (EO) are questioning whether it will drive significant new agency rollbacks without encountering major legal problems, though supporters are highlighting another aspect that imposes a series of principles designed to ensure “fairness” in enforcement actions.
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AUSTIN, TX -- A top EPA waste official is vowing that the agency will soon send for White House pre-publication review its final rule to undo Obama-era changes that tightened facility safety risk management plan (RMP) requirements, a surprise move refuting environmentalists’ suggestions that the rollback was “dead in the water."
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