"Swift Repeal Of Obama Rules Leaves Former Staffers Steaming"

"Joe Pizarchik spent more than seven years working on a regulation to protect streams from mountaintop removal coal mining.

It took Congress 25 hours to kill it.

The rule is just one of dozens enacted in the final months of the Obama administration that congressional Republicans have begun erasing under a once-obscure law — much to the dismay of agency staffers who hauled those regulations through the long process to implementation. "

Alex Guillén and Marianne LeVine report for Politico February 11, 2017.