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President Trump Signs Executive Order on Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry

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In a move he characterized as building on his far-reaching actions to promote U.S. space leadership in his first term, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) on "Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space...more

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Proposed NEPA Regulation Overhaul: Next Steps and What Matters for Public Agencies

Public Comments Due March 10 - The White House Council on Environmental Quality issued a proposal to significantly overhaul, for the first time in 40 years, the regulations for implementing the National Environmental...more

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Court Remands Northern Long-eared Bat Listing Back to USFWS

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Yesterday, in Center for Biological Diversity v. Everson?, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia overturned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) decision to list the northern long-eared bat...more

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Initiation of 5-year Status Reviews for 66 Species in California and Nevada

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On January 28, 2020, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) published a notice and request for information in connection with USFWS’s initiation of 5-year status reviews for 66 species found in California and Nevada....more

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Service Launches Comprehensive Review of Grizzly Bear ESA Status

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On Tuesday, January 14, 2020, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published a federal register notice that it will be commencing a comprehensive study of the status of the Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis)....more

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Proposed Reforms to NEPA & Their Impact on New Nuclear

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The Council on Environmental Quality is proposing major changes to its regulations concerning the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), that if implemented could have impacts on advanced reactor licensing. ...more

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CEQ's NEPA regulatory overhaul: highlights and predictions

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The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a cornerstone of environmental law that Congress enacted in 1970. NEPA celebrated its 50th anniversary earlier this month. NEPA has been the focus of extensive litigation and...more

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Will Long-Awaited Changes to NEPA Materially Alter Federal Environmental Reviews?

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On January 10, 2020, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) proposed amendments to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing regulations.  The Proposed Rule would represent the first significant overhaul of...more

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Feds Propose Overhaul of Environmental Reviews for Controversial Projects

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The Trump Administration is proposing significant revisions to the implementing regulations of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) in an overhaul effort that the Administration is touting as a “modernization”...more

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Trump Administration Releases Proposed Revisions to Environmental Review Regulations 

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Yesterday, the Trump Administration announced its long-awaited release of updates to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementation regulations (Regulations)....more

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White House to Ease Environmental Permits with Proposed Revisions to NEPA

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On January 9, 2020, the White House issued a proposal to substantially revise the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). The proposed changes, the most significant to NEPA in more than four decades, could result in a...more

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EPA To Assess Health Threat Posed By At Least Some PFAS Substances, But There Are Doubts About Objectivity

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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has announced an effort to assess the potential health risks posed by a class of chemicals known as per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that have been found in significant concentrations...more

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Update: Trump's Busy First Week of Office

As reported last week in Bradley’s Governmental Affairs alert in A Sign of Things to Come? Trump’s Regulatory Freeze and Other Early Actions, the Trump administration took immediate action with regard to the Affordable Care...more

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