With the recent announcement of 31 changes to the EPA's regulations, it may appear to be little more than a handful of buzzwords in the face of the plethora of other changes occurring to various governmental agencies. This post will help you catch up on the 'Need to knows' of the Administrator Lee Zeldin's changes to the EPA.

The majority of changes include 'reconsidering' rules, which takes time. None of the changes are instantaneous, but they do mean that standards on topics like vehicle emissions, clean water standards, power plants, and more have the potential to acquire new rules or standards. 

Domestic energy and a lack of reliance on international powers is meant to be the core of the initiative, but with this comes a reconsideration of rules that once were instated to attempt to combat global warming.

At this point, like in many other governmental agencies, we are stuck in a waiting game. It remains to be seen exactly how the EPA's reconsiderations will affect environmental standards, yet it is a topic to be on the lookout for.