White House Releases Sweeping Regulatory Agenda

The White House on Friday released its latest regulatory agenda, a sweeping plan that includes rules on power plants, renewable fuels, ozone pollution, Clean Water Act jurisdiction and disclosure of payments by oil and gas companies.

The spring issue of the biannual "Unified Agenda of Federal and Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions" details both short- and long-term plans for every agency in the government.

The most notable goals include timelines for the release of greenhouse gas emission standards, proposed 2015 renewable fuel standard targets, a controversial stream protection rule, crude-by-rail safety standards, and methane and hydraulic fracturing regulations.

For U.S. EPA, the White House plan lists more than 130 regulatory items on the agenda from marquee items to mundane actions.  The agenda lays out the schedule for three much-anticipated rules to curb greenhouse gas emissions from new, modified and existing power plants.

The New Source Performance Standard (NSPS) for new fossil fuels power plants will be finalized in January 2015, it says.

White House Releases Sweeping Regulatory Agenda