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Article snippet: 2020 is shaping up to be a busy year on the energy and environmental front. The Trump administration is pushing ahead with their broad regulatory rollback, while on Capitol Hill House Democrats are looking to pass legislation on their ambitious clean energy agenda. Hovering over those moves will be the approaching presidential election, certain to raise the stakes for Washington's environmental policy fights. Here are the five biggest fights we'll be watching in the year ahead. EPA's regulatory rollback Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator MORE has said he is often asked how the agency can protect the environment by rolling back regulations. “This question assumes that regulation is the only path to environmental protection,” Wheeler told the Detroit Economic Club in October. “Innovation and technology have led to remarkable environmental progress and often deregulation is necessary to spur on that innovation. Furthermore, deregulation does not always mean rolling back rules. More often than not it means modernizing or simplifying or streamlining regulations.” But the flood of lawsuits against the agency and the Department of the Interior make it clear not everyone shares that view. In 2019 alone, states or environmental groups, often together, have sued over rollbacks of the Endangered Species Act, tailpipe emissions rules, President Obama’s Clean Power Plan and Waters of the U.S. rule, offshore drilling safety regulations, and the easing of eff... Link to the full article to read more