And the notice-and-comment regulation that the Trump EPA promulgated to effectuate this change was struck down by the D.C. Circuit as contrary to the plain language of the Clean Air Act (specifically, CAA sec. 211(h)) in July 2021.
Biden's bullsh*t "waiver" is equally unlawful. Got a problem with that, take it up with Congress. The Clean Air Act is crystal clear on the matter, as the court found. The statutory restriction cannot be changed or "waived" merely by executive action. Biden's EPA knows this, as did Trump's EPA in its time. But orders are handed down -- motivated by purely political considerations, the law be damned -- everybody salutes, and there you are.
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