Trump Might Revisit Environmental Rules Going Back Decades: Ebell

"The new administration may revisit environmental regulations adopted not only by the Obama administration but by previous presidents, according to President Trump’s former Environmental Protection Agency transition team leader, Myron Ebell.

Ebell, who has returned to his post as a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said in an interview Thursday that he does not speak for the administration. But he said that over the course of the 2016 presidential campaign and since taking office, Trump has made it clear that “he sees the EPA as an obstacle to investment in large sectors of the economy, particularly in terms of the resources sector and the manufacturing sector.”

“And these obstacles didn’t start with President Obama on Jan. 1, 2009,” Ebell said. “Some serious work needs to be done in terms of these rules that are killing jobs in this country.”"

Juliet Eilperin reports for the Washington Post January 26, 2017.