"Group Girds To Battle Trump Over 'Ghost Rules'"

"The watchdog group Public Citizen is considering bringing litigation against the Trump administration over so-called 'ghost rules,' or proposals that were withdrawn from the rulemaking process without explanation.

There were about 25 identified Obama administration rules nearing the end of the pipeline when White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus issued a regulatory freeze just days after President Trump was inaugurated.

'Some of these rules had gone all the way through the agency process and were pending approval by [the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs], and then suddenly, they're just taken down from the regulatory agenda,' said Michael Kirkpatrick, an attorney at Public Citizen Litigation Group."

Arianna Skibell reports for Greenwire March 10, 2017.