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Biden administration supercharging controversial “sue and settle” practice to expand environmental rules-and-regs.
The first full week of the year is in the books, and we’re already off to an action packed start!
Congressional leaders are once again acting on key information uncovered by our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has opened an investigation into the EPA’s controversial “sue and settle” tactic that involves outside groups – frequently environmentalists – suing the agency to expand its work.
The EPA is settling these lawsuits behind closed doors and reimbursing millions of legal fees to the environmentalists.
The Biden practice was first highlighted last July in our EPA Oversight Report, and we shared our findings with the Washington Examiner, all cited by the committee in its initial letter to the EPA.
Critics say “sue and settle” creates an end-run around Congress, state governments, and private businesses affected by the new, often costly, rules.
Worse, there’s concern that ideological bureaucrats are happy for outside organizations to sue for a regulation they already favor creating, effectively inviting the litigation and then paying the plaintiff’s legal fees.
Those fees have cost us, the taxpayers, over $16 MILLION since 2013!