EXCLUSIVE — The EPA in JoeBiden's first two years as president has quietly steered over double the amount in taxpayer-backed payouts to liberal climate activists and other groups than in Donald Trump's four-year term combined.
Trump EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt issued a 2017 memo vowing to end"sue and settle," which involves groups challenging the government on aligned issues, followed by agencies ending disputes and approving rules they may be unable to push through Congress. The EPA under Biden, which revoked the memo, spent over $6.
"Offering a chance to push back on new regulations, and putting transparency standards in place for bureaucrats, meant sue-and-settle was no longer paying the same big-government dividends," Open the Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski told the Washington Examiner."Flash forward to today, though, and the numbers show sue-and-settle tactics are back under President Biden."
For instance, 2022 attorneys fees for Sierra Club and plaintiffs in Sierra Club et al. v. Regan were $45,000. The suit was brought under the Clean Air Act in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and alleged the agency under Trump failed to vet"loopholes" for regulations related to National Ambient Air Quality Standards in 29 states, according to court records.
A staggering $1.2 million of that sum was in 2021 in connection to two different cases. The EPA dished out over $449,000 in 2021 alone in attorneys fees on an NEA case alleging that the government did not"ensure the protection and restoration of fresh and marine waters" in Oregon, according to court records.
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