An alleged Trump administration effort to tie the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s hands regarding energy and climate rules under President-elect Joe Biden has run into a problem: a Democrat-controlled Senate. The EPA has finalized two major rules in the waning weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency that could make future efforts to create carbon-cutting regulations for fossil fuel-fired power plants and other climate measures more difficult. One is a final rule requiring the EPA to separately calculate the costs and benefits linked to reductions in pollutants directly targeted by Clean Air Act rules. Another final regulation would require the EPA to give more weight to scientific studies that publicly disclose underlying health data, a rule widely viewed by critics as an effort to limit the agency’s use of science to strengthen public health safeguards. But […]