Comments on: Trump administration moving to reduce rocket launch environmental regulations https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/trump-administration-moving-to-reduce-rocket-launch-environmental-regulations/ Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:35:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/trump-administration-moving-to-reduce-rocket-launch-environmental-regulations/#comment-1612227 Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:35:13 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=115754#comment-1612227 If there was ever a Congress – which there never will be – willing to pass such a self-limitation, said Congress would be more likely to simply abolish the EPA than tie its own hands.

Fortunately, the recent SCOTUS decisions abolishing so-called chevron deference and declaring the administrative law infrastructures of Executive Branch agencies unconstitutional should pull sufficient regulatory teeth to keep gratuitous future interference with legitimate spaceflight endeavors down to a very dull roar indeed.

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/trump-administration-moving-to-reduce-rocket-launch-environmental-regulations/#comment-1612007 Fri, 25 Jul 2025 07:16:42 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=115754#comment-1612007 The thing to do is to propose legislation such that any future laws hobbling spaceflight require a unanimous vote. Same for any EPA rules.

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