Scott Pruitt’s EPA is the first Executive agency to abandon the questionable Obama-Era practice of “Sue and Settle.”
“The days of regulation through litigation are over,” EPA chief Scott Pruitt declared in a statement. “We will no longer go behind closed doors and use consent decrees and settlement agreements to resolve lawsuits filed against the Agency by special interest groups where doing so would circumvent the regulatory process set forth by Congress.”
Pruitt’s order would also end the practice of paying out “tens of thousands of dollars in attorney’s fees to these groups with which we swiftly settle,” Pruitt added.
Mr. Pruitt has found a form of climate change the environmental groups don’t believe. “Regulatory Climate” change.
