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On July 17, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced a direct final rule and companion proposal extending several compliance deadlines related to coal combustion residuals (“CCR”). The direct final...more
A Texas federal judge has voided a Biden Administration CFPB rule that would have prohibited medical debt in credit reports....more
On June 11, 2025, the US Environmental Protection Agency, under Administrator Lee Zeldin, proposed repealing two key Biden–Harris-era rules targeting greenhouse gas and air toxic emissions from fossil fuel–fired power plants....more
In a significant but not unsurprising policy shift, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced the withdrawal of proposed rules aimed at enhancing ESG disclosures and modifying shareholder proposal...more
On June 17, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a proposed rule to repeal the amendments to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (“MATS”) adopted by the Biden administration in 2024. These...more
The US Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a proposed rule and accompanying press release announcing its intent to repeal both the 2015 greenhouse gas emissions standards for new fossil fuel-fired power plants...more
On June 6, 2025, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order (E.O.) 14306 to scale back a range of cybersecurity requirements and government-wide approaches implemented by the Biden Administration....more
The transportation sector has long served a vital function in service of the U.S. government at home and abroad. Examples of private industry’s role in the workings of government include civil functions such as hauling U.S....more
If finalized, the rule would eliminate both Obama- and Biden-era limits on GHG emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants. On June 11, 2025, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed rule under...more
The White House’s approach to regulatory policy emerged swiftly after Inauguration Day. In many parts of the industry the new Administration started with a “buzz” of excitement. ...more
President Trump has signed a resolution nullifying the rule implementing the CFPB’s power to supervise large nonbank financial services providers of general-use digital consumer payment applications....more
The NRC recently withdrew its Policy Statement on the Treatment of Environmental Justice (EJ) Matters in NRC Regulatory and Licensing Actions (EJ Policy Statement). The NRC did so in response to Executive Order (EO) 14173,...more
Contending that policies implemented by guidance represent an unfair regulatory burden and might be contrary to federal law, the CFPB is rescinding 67 guidance documents issued since the bureau began operating in 2011....more
The CFPB has withdrawn its 1) Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)/Regulation V Proposed Rule (Data Broker Rule), 2) Prohibited Terms and Conditions in Agreements for Consumer Financial Products or Services (Regulation AA)...more
Following the Trump administration’s previously announced commitment to “slash unnecessary red tape and regulations,” the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed a new suite of deregulatory actions that, if successful, will...more
During the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final regulation (the “2024 Rule”) seeking to increase the salary threshold for overtime eligibility for the “white-collar” exemption (also referred...more
President Donald Trump on May 9, 2025, signed into law measures to eliminate two CFPB rules established under the Biden Administration. The first rule repealed was the CFPB's Overdraft Rule, one aspect of the Biden...more
On May 9, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs announced that President Trump signed into law Chairman Tim Scott’s (R-SC) Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution, effectively overturning the...more
President Trump has signed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution nullifying the CFPB’s controversial overdraft rule. ...more
The CFPB says it wants to scrap a Biden Administration rule that prohibits credit reporting agencies from including medical debts on credit reports, one of many Biden era rules that the Trump Administration has sought to...more
The Federal Highway Administration (“FHA”) published a final rule that repeals the requirement that state Departments of Transportation (“DOTs”) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (“MPOs”) undertake certain greenhouse...more
Primarily through the issuance of executive orders, the Trump administration has taken a comprehensive approach across departments to promote the production and use of fossil fuels and critical minerals, and withdraw support...more
Today my colleagues and I will discuss recent developments in the US trade regulatory space. We’re almost 100 days into the new administration, which stepped into a dynamic US trade regulatory environment, including new...more
Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have sent letters to financial regulators asking them to rescind a variety of measures the regulators issued during the Biden Administration....more
Plutocrats reigned. The gulf between rich and poor was huge. Nativist extremists, populist politicians, and major elements of the media clamored about the waves of immigrants flooding into America. And health challenges...more