President Joe Biden's allies are getting antsy about his administration's pileup of unfinished environmental rules - especially with the threat that a second Trump presidency could undo them all.
Biden's agencies are facing a deadline this spring to finish some of their most important regulations to ensure that a Republican Congress and White House can't erase them next year, including a crackdown on power plants' climate pollution, protections for endangered species and a bid to protect federal employees from politically motivated firings.
The scramble to finish the regulations is crucial to determining how much of Biden's ambitious legacy may survive past the November election, as the two likely nominees promote sharply contrasting views on climate change, green energy and the power of federal agencies.
The Biden administration has promised action on a lot of fronts, and how soon it rolls those rules out could determine how easy they are for a future administration to unravel.
The polite fiction is that the feds are supposed to write rules objectively and impartially.
Closely watched climate rules, such as revamped tailpipe pollution limits for cars and trucks, are expected in March as well.
The rule could serve as a vital defense for federal employees if Trump wins in November.
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