Return the EPA to a narrower role as environmental regulator
What the document says“EPA needs to be realigned away from attempts to make it an all-powerful energy and land use policymaker and returned to its congressionally sanctioned role as environmental regulator.”
This is the chapter's framing proposition. It says the agency's structure and mission should be greatly circumscribed to reflect cooperative federalism and limited government, and that the primary role in making choices about the environment belongs to the people who live in it.
What the document actually says“EPA needs to be realigned away from attempts to make it an all-powerful energy and land use policymaker and returned to its congressionally sanctioned role as environmental regulator.”
The EPA has become a maker of energy and land rules. It should go back to guarding the environment.
The EPA is meant to protect air, water and soil. The book says it now sets energy and land rules too. It says that goes beyond its job.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Executive Order 14261 of April 8, 2025 directs the EPA Administrator, along with five other agency heads, to identify guidance, regulations, programs and policies that seek to move the country away from coal production and coal-fired generation, and to take steps on them. It changes what the agency does about one fuel. It does not circumscribe the agency's structure or mission, which is what the chapter asks Congress for, and nothing else indexed does either. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.