{"id":340162,"date":"2024-08-21T07:20:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T05:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=340162"},"modified":"2024-08-21T07:20:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T05:20:57","slug":"regulators-need-to-stop-assuming-they-can-get-away-with-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=340162","title":{"rendered":"Regulators need to stop assuming they can get away with everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saying the \u201cexpansive regulatory state encouraged by Chevron<\/em> deference has undermined our system of government, overburdening our citizenry, and threatening to overwhelm our Founders\u2019 system of checks and balances,\u201d members of House committees with oversight over the vast federal bureaucracy have requested agencies to provide lists of existing and pending regulations that were upheld or could be defended under the 40-year-old legal precedent struck down by the Supreme Court June 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Chevron<\/em> deference, courts were instructed to defer to federal agencies\u2019 interpretation of ambiguously worded laws passed by Congress. The doctrine allowed unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats to determine how much power their respective agencies could wield, so long as their interpretations were \u201creasonable.\u201d That ended with the court\u2019s 6-3 ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises v.<\/em> Raimondo<\/em>, and now House lawmakers are letting the entrenched bureaucracy know that times have changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In letters<\/a> sent July 9-11 to 43 federal agencies and departments, lawmakers, spearheaded by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Responsibility, left little doubt that they expect agencies to play by the new set of rules. Recipients ranged from the high-profile Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Labor Relations Board, along with the departments of treasury, energy, defense, labor, justice, and education, to the more obscure Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and the National Credit Union Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether the letters<\/a> were sent to the high and the mighty or to smaller operations, their wording was roughly the same, suggesting the action was well coordinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typical of the information sought is found in a July 9 letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm from Comer and House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.). Granholm was asked to turn over a list of all pending judicial challenges to final agency rules that may be impacted by the Court\u2019s Loper Bright decision; a list of all agency rules not yet challenged in court but may be impacted by the Court\u2019s Loper Bright decision if they are so challenged; and a list of all pending agency rulemakings in which the agency is relying on an agency interpretation of statutory authority that might have been eligible for Chevron deference prior to the Court\u2019s decision in Loper Bright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden administration staunchly defended Chevron<\/em> deference before the high court and is among the losers in one of the most consequential rulings handed down in decades, a point not lost on House GOP lawmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPerhaps no other administration has gone as far as President Biden\u2019s to found sweeping and intrusive agency dictates on such questionable assertions of agency authority,\u201d Comer and Westerman wrote, referring to the abuse made possible by Chevron<\/em> deference. \u201cThe Biden administration has promulgated far more major rules, imposing far more costs and paperwork burdens, than either of its predecessor administrations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany of these rules \u2013 such as those promulgated to impose President Biden\u2019s climate, energy, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) agendas \u2013 have been based on aggressive interpretations of statutes enacted by Congress years and even decades ago, before many issues against which the Biden administration has sought to deploy them were even imagined,\u201d the two congressmen added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seeking such lists from Granholm and other department and agency heads throughout the bureaucracy, Comer and his colleagues are asking nothing less than the surrender of information that both sides know will lead to the weakening of the administrative state. Once turned over, the lists will provide inviting targets for those adversely affected by agency actions to challenge those rules in court, citing the demise of Chevron<\/em> deference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entrenched bureaucracy\u2019s willingness to relinquish power it has accumulated over decades will largely depend on the outcome of this fall\u2019s election. It will determine how much pressure the executive branch and Congress will bring to bear beginning next year to force agency compliance with the Supreme Court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, regulatory agencies \u2014 in a time-honored Washington tradition \u2014 are likely to drag their feet in responding to the letters Comer and his colleagues have sent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared at Human Events<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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