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Horizon - ESG Regulatory News and Trends - August 2025

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Welcome to Horizon, DLA Piper’s monthly bulletin reporting on late-breaking legislative and policy developments in ESG. Our aim is to scan the litigation, enforcement, and regulatory horizon to help inform business decisions....more

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The State AG Report – 08.28.2025

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Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: • FTC Sues LA Fitness to Cancel Unfair Membership...more

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Republican AGs Support End of California Vehicle Emission Regulations

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Iowa AG Brenna Bird led a group of 26 Republican AGs in filing two amici curiae briefs urging the dismissal of pending challenges to Environmental Protection Agency waivers allowing California to enforce its own vehicle...more

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EPA’s Proposed Reversal of the Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding—How Politics Drives Legal Reinterpretation of the Clean Air Act

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On August 20, 2025, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, among several other state attorneys general, testified in opposition to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to reverse its 2009 finding that...more

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EPA Officially Proposes Revocation of Endangerment Finding

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published its heavily anticipated proposal to revoke its 2009 determination under section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) that greenhouse gases (GHG) "cause, or contribute...more

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Global Warning: ICJ Declares Climate Obligation

On July 23, 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a landmark advisory opinion, holding that nation-states have obligations under international law to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, adapt to the...more

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Endangerment Finding Reconsidered as Clean Air Waivers Are Targeted

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California's unique ability to set its own vehicle emissions standards under Section 209(b) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) is facing unprecedented legal and political challenges. At the center of the controversy is Congress's...more

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EPA proposes to rescind greenhouse gas endangerment finding

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On Aug. 1, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a proposed rule in which it proposes to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding and repeal all greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emission standards that have been...more

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AGs Clash over EPA Rollbacks, Net-Zero Standards

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Illinois AG Kwame Raoul co-led a coalition of 17 Democratic AGs, the city of Chicago, New York City, and the California Air Resources Board, in filing comments opposing the EPA’s proposal to repeal the 2024 Mercury and Air...more

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Trump Administration Halts $7 Billion Solar for All Grant Program; Adds Roadblocks to Development on Public Lands

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On August 7, the Trump Administration announced it is cancelling the Solar for All federal grant program, which originally committed $7 billion in awarded grants to support solar in low income and disadvantaged households....more

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Industrials Regulatory News and Trends - August 2025

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Welcome to Industrials Regulatory News and Trends. In this regular bulletin, DLA Piper lawyers provide concise updates on key developments in the industrials sector to help you navigate the ever-changing business, legal, and...more

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Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage in the United States

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Jones Day released a White Paper titled, “CCUS Regulation and Incentives in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Comparative Table for Strategic Decision-Making.” This White Paper is a continuation on that topic, covering carbon...more

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New EPA Positions Reflected in Sweeping Rollback of Greenhouse Gas Regulation

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The Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") proposed a rule that would rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, citing a new interpretation of the relevant section in the Clean Air Act ("CAA"), a lack of clear congressional...more

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Up in the Air: EPA Opens Comment on Repealing Endangerment Finding, Motor Vehicle GHG Rules

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Aug. 1, 2025, published a proposal to repeal all greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty vehicles and engines from model year 2012...more

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EPA Moves to Rescind 2009 Endangerment Finding

On July 29, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) formally proposed to revoke its 2009 “Endangerment Finding,” in which the EPA declared that greenhouse gases contribute to air pollution and endanger public health. This...more

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EPA Proposes Repeal of 2009 Endangerment Finding Impacting Greenhouse Gas Regulations

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On July 29, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposal to rescind its 2009 Endangerment Finding....more

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EPA Proposes to Rescind Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and Associated Motor Vehicle and Engine Emission Standards

Key Takeaways - What Happened? On July 29, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a proposed rule to rescind the 2009 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Endangerment Finding (“Endangerment and Cause or Contribute...more

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Everything Old is New Again: Actual Emissions are No Longer Enforceable Under NSR Permitting

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EPA is withdrawing the proposed rule titled ‘‘Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and Nonattainment New Source Review (NNSR): Regulations Related to Project Emissions Accounting’’ published in the Federal Register...more

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Change is in the Air for Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Emissions Standards

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Our Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group examines recent federal actions that may reshape federal greenhouse gas (GHG) vehicle emissions standards as well as California’s and other states’ authority to set and...more

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EPA Introduces Rule To Repeal Endangerment Finding

On Tuesday July 29, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced a proposed rule to repeal its 2009 finding that greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions from new motor vehicles contribute to pollution and endanger...more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update 8.1.25

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on July 29 proposed to repeal its landmark finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health. The EPA’s so-called endangerment finding, issued in 2009, is a formal...more

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Pulling the Critical Block: EPA’s Repeal of the Endangerment Finding Could Topple Climate Rules

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On Tuesday, EPA proposed to repeal its 2009 Endangerment Finding (Repeal Proposal). That’s a big deal, with expansive implications. The 2009 Endangerment Finding determined six greenhouse gases (GHG) are air pollutants that...more

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EPA Proposes to Rescind Landmark Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and Eliminate Mobile Source Emissions Standards for GHGs

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Today, August 1, 2025, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a controversial proposed rule that, if finalized, would rescind the agency’s landmark 2009 determination that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from...more

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EPA Proposes Repeal of Legal Foundation for Greenhouse Gas Rules

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a major shift in regulatory policy—to rescind the agency’s 2009 “Endangerment Finding” and to repeal all resulting emission standards for new motor vehicles and...more

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EPA Initiates Rulemaking to Eliminate the 2009 GHG Endangerment Finding

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") proposes rescission of the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which underpins greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act....more

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