Committee leader presses agencies over Chevron deference

Health, education and drug agencies asked how they intend to respond to controversial court ruling

The ranking Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has written to seven federal agencies asking them how they intend to respond to last month’s controversial Supreme Court ruling overturning 40 years of science-related lawmaking in the United States.

In late June, the Supreme Court narrowly voted to scrap the Chevron deference, a four-decade precedent under which US courts deferred to federal agencies over interpretations of ambiguous congressional law regarding technical matters within the agencies’ remits.