EPA Asks Drillers and Miners for Advice on Regulating Them
- ‘Smart Sectors’ program follows Trump’s vow to cut regulations
- EPA chief says U.S. to consider American business as partners
An excavator stands in this aerial photograph taken above a coal strip mine in Indiana.
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President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency is asking miners, oil drillers and manufacturers to collaborate with the government on how best to regulate their industries.
The EPA began its new "Smart Sectors" program with an inaugural meeting between agency staff and representatives of its regulated industries on Tuesday and a promise to work together to "develop sensible approaches that better protect the environment and public health."