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Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: A Look at the Current Challenge to Judicial Deference to Federal Agencies and What it Means for the Consumer Financial Services Industry, With Special Guest, Craig Green, Professor, Temple University
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H2-OWOW! – A Reflective Conversation with John Goodin, Former Director of EPA’s Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds – Reflections on Water Podcast
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West Virginia vs. EPA Part II: U.S. Supreme Court Applies the Major Questions Doctrine to limit EPA Regulatory Authority
#WorkforceWednesday: Employers Respond to Dobbs, Implications of the Supreme Court's EPA Ruling, and Pay Increases for CA Health Care Workers - Employment Law This Week®
PFAS Regulatory Update: EPA Issues Updated Drinking Water Health Advisories
The Trump Administration has allocated no money to fund the Chemical Safety Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) for fiscal year 2026, directing the agency to use its emergency funds to shutter its doors by the end of fiscal year...more
The White House Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) sent President Trump’s recommendations for the fiscal year 2026 budget to the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 2, 2025. The proposal includes significant cuts to...more
I’ve always taken the position that, no matter how much I disagree with the President, the Senate should confirm his executive branch nominees (nominations to the Judicial Branch are different, since judges don’t work for the...more
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Superfund Program is a cornerstone of the United States’ efforts to remediate contaminated sites and protect public health. The Superfund Program under President-Elect Donald...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. Both the House and Senate are in this week. The House is scheduled to vote on a bill that would enhance the benefits and workplace protections for Transportation...more
On Monday, March 11, 2019, the Office of Management and Budget issued President Trump’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2020, “A Budget for a Better America”, (the “Budget Proposal”) in the amount of $4.7 trillion. As in...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Congress. The House voted last week to overturn President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration, delivering a harsh rebuke to the President's attempt to go around...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Partial Government Shutdown Continues With No End in Sight: The ongoing partial government shutdown, a result of 7 of the 12 annual appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2019...more
The second week of the United States government shutdown is having an increasing effect on various federal agencies. The agencies affected by the lapse in the 2018 Appropriation include the United States Environmental...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Congress Struggles to Find the “End Game” for the 115th Congress and FY19 Appropriations: After a week of relative calm and political truces in the Capitol as the nation...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Year End Budget Battle. On Friday, President Trump signed the two-week Continuing Resolution (H.J. Res. 143) into law, funding the government through December 21st....more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Recess. The House and Senate, along with new member orientation, recess this week for the Thanksgiving holiday and will start up sessions again the week of Nov. 26....more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Minibus on Senate Floor. The Senate is expected to take up a four-bill spending package next week. ...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Senate Floor. The Senate is schedule to finish its work this evening on the minibus appropriations bill, a three-bill spending package that includes Energy and Water...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Minibus Appropriations Strategy. The House and Senate are planning to move appropriations bills in small packages of two or three bills in order to avoid a significantly delayed...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Farm Bill Re-vote? Last week’s vote on the farm bill failed after the Freedom Caucus refused to support the measure. A roll call vote on the motion to reconsider was postponed...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - They’re Back. Congress returns today for a busy three weeks until the Memorial Day recess....more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital Congress Returns Today. Congress comes back to Washington today after a two-week recess period for the Easter and Passover holidays and is scheduled to have a busy week....more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Tax Cuts Part Two. House Republican leadership is continuing to make noise on the possibility of another tax bill with the House Ways and Means Chairman Brady stating that he...more
• The Trump Administration released an ambitious $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan on Feb. 12, 2018 – a plan that includes many provisions focused upon encouraging the reuse of contaminated brownfields and Superfund sites. ...more
President Donald Trump on February 12, 2018, submitted his budget request to Congress for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. The President's full budget calls for approximately $4.4 trillion in total spending. Much of the budget seeks...more
As expected, the Trump administration has been actively engaged in efforts to reverse the federal government’s regulatory direction with respect to climate change. In 2017, President Donald Trump announced plans to withdraw...more
Another Continuing Resolution. Or Two? Within days of passing the CR to reopen the government, multiple Members of Congress expressed the possibility of needing another CR to fund the government after February 8. ...more
Shutdown Watch: 4 Days. The government will run out of money on Friday if it does not pass another short-term spending bill. Last week it looked like Congress was close to negotiating a short-term continuing resolution that...more
Another short-term continuing resolution is all but guaranteed as the current continuing resolution will expire later this month and budget talks last week did not result in a deal or hint at one in the near future. As the...more