Following a record-long 35-day government shutdown early last year, President Donald Trump's administration was already running short on time to finish high-priority environmental rollbacks before the November 2020 elections. Now the coronavirus outbreak that is sweeping across the nation is also threatening to derail some of the most important pieces of Trump's deregulatory environmental agenda by causing workforce disruptions and court delays.
"The more offices that are involved, the more people that are involved ... the more complicated it is and the more of a bump in the road this will be for them," said Janet McCabe, acting assistant administrator of the EPA's air office during the Obama administration.
