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Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Obama halts Bush’s final rules.

In one of his first acts, Obama, through his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, “ordered a halt to all pending federal regulations until the new White House team conducts a legal and policy review of the last-minute Bush administration rules,” E&E Daily (subs. reqd) reports. ...  Rahm Emanuel’s memo could lead to the reversal of dozens of energy and environmental measures advanced in Bush’s waning days, including standards addressing mountaintop mining, air pollution permits, logging in the West, an exemption for factory farms from Superfund reporting requirements and endangered species.