A recent Chemical & Engineering News story, “Overturning Chevron is a ‘game-changer’ for the business of chemistry,” did not include any celebratory quotes from the American Chemistry Council or its members.
C&EN quoted Tim Whitehouse, executive director of the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and former senior attorney at EPA, saying that with the Chevron doctrine gone, he expects “a period of uncertainty,” where all EPA actions will be “under very close scrutiny in the courts in ways that they weren’t before.”
