President Trump has issued a flurry of new Executive Orders and Presidential Memoranda aimed at advancing the Administration’s deregulatory agenda, particularly in the energy and environmental sectors. This advisory provides...more
On March 12, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that EPA would soon undertake efforts to roll back 31 environmental regulations that cut across industry sectors. EPA’s deregulatory...more
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Following our post-election Alert outlining major anticipated themes for environmental and natural resource law and policy in the second Trump administration, leaders from a number of our practices – many of...more
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• What Is Happening? On December 2, 2023, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final Clean Air Act (Act) rule designed to...more
On May 23, 2023, after months of anticipation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its proposal for sweeping greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards (GHG Rules) in the Federal Register that will, if...more
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During the COP27 meeting of the UN Climate Change Convention, President Biden unveiled significant proposed enhancements to the Administration’s existing methane regulation program, including a...more
On June 30, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in West Virginia v. EPA, 597 U.S. __, 2022 WL 2347278 (June 30, 2022), a case involving the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) and the Trump...more
EPA’s Office of Transportation Air Quality recently issued a report titled “EPA and Port Everglades Partnership: Emission Inventories and Reduction Strategies” (“the Port Everglades Report”). The Port Everglades Report comes...more
On October 10, 2017, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt signed a notice of proposed rulemaking (“proposed rule”) repealing the Clean Power Plan (“CPP”). Repeal of Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary...more
On May 16, 2017, Virginia’s Governor Terry McAuliffe signed Executive Directive 11 (the “Directive”), which directs Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) to develop regulations to reduce greenhouse gas...more
On September 22, 2016, EPA issued a report titled “National Port Strategy Assessment: Reducing Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases at U.S. Ports” (the “Assessment”).[1] According to EPA, the Assessment supports the goal of...more
During the week of January 18, 2016, the Department of Energy & Environment of the District of Columbia (“Department”) released a pre-draft proposal of its much-anticipated synthetic minor permitting regulations. The proposal...more