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New White House AI Action Plan and EO Aim to Streamline Environmental Review and Data Center Permitting

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DLA Piper’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Analytics legal and policy team previously issued a client alert analyzing the White House’s unveiling of “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan” (the Action Plan) and...more

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New U.S. Department of the Interior Review Procedures for Activities Related to Wind and Solar Energy

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On July 15, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) circulated an internal memorandum, requiring 68 different DOI actions related to wind and solar project development to be submitted to the DOI Office of the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Promote American Security with Respect to Sterile Medical Equipment (Trump EO...

This proclamation addresses the EPA’s April 5, 2024 final rule, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Ethylene Oxide Emissions Standards for Sterilization Facilities Residual Risk and Technology Review, 89...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

What the New Executive Order on “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations” Means for Environmental Criminal Enforcement

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On May 9, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order No. 14294, “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations” (EO), which reinforces the administration’s deregulatory agenda. While sweeping in scope, the EO has...more

DLA Piper

Horizon - ESG Regulatory News and Trends - June 2025

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EPA announces details of its reorganization. On May 2, the EPA announced a major reorganization that will eliminate several key offices, including the Office of Atmospheric Protection (OAP), Office of Air Quality Planning and...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

EPA Announces Interim Rule Further Delaying TSCA Section 8(a)(7) PFAS Reporting by Nine Months

On May 12, 2025, EPA announced that it will publish an interim rule further delaying by nine months the one-time reporting required under TSCA section 8(a)(7) for entities manufacturing or importing PFAS at any time between...more

King & Spalding

New Executive Order Promotes Domestic Production of Critical Medicines

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On May 5, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order (“EO”) 14293 entitled Regulatory Relief to Promote Domestic Production of Critical Medicines. The EO directs the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), U.S....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The Trump Administration Seeks to Spur Domestic Drug Manufacturing with Regulatory Relief EO

On May 5, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) titled “Regulatory Relief to Promote Domestic Production of Critical Medicines,” with the stated purpose of eliminating “regulatory barriers to the domestic production...more

McGuireWoods Consulting

White House Issues Executive Order to Promote Domestic Prescription Drug Manufacturing

On May 5, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order designed to increase U.S. capacity to manufacture drugs domestically. The order instructs the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Chemical Companies Petition EPA to Amend TSCA Section 8(a)(7) PFAS Reporting Rule

On May 2, 2025, a coalition of chemical companies petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for an amendment of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Section 8(a)(7) rule requiring reporting for per- and...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Issues Emergency Fuel Waiver to Allow Sale of E15 This Summer

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on April 28, 2025, that it has issued an emergency fuel waiver allowing the sale of gasoline blended with 15 percent ethanol (E15) nationwide in summer 2025. EPA notes...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Will Review 2024 Rule Amending the TSCA Risk Evaluation Framework Rule

On March 10, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its intent to reconsider the May 3, 2024, rule amending the procedural framework rule for conducting risk evaluations under the Toxic Substances...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

The EPA’s New Funding Hurdles: What to Expect

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A recent shift in EPA funding approvals has raised questions about potential delays in environmental projects, disaster response and clean energy initiatives. According to an AP report, all EPA division directors and deputy...more

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Litigation Minute: Emerging Contaminants: What's on the Horizon?

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What You Need to Know in a Minute or Less - Emerging contaminants are synthetic or natural chemicals that have not been fully assessed from a health or risk perspective and are reportedly finding their way into consumer...more

Morgan Lewis

Executive Actions Substantially Revise Environmental Justice Policies and Practices

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President Donald Trump’s early executive actions have rescinded environmental justice initiatives dating back more than 30 years as a part of the US administration’s broader objective of eliminating considerations of race,...more

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Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs/White House Office of Management and Budget...

A Blog post on January 30, 2025, described the White House Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) issuance of a January 27th Memorandum for heads of executive departments and agencies addressing: Temporary Pause of...more

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Outlook for Trump Administration Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Regulation, Enforcement & Litigation

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Overview - 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

Brooks Pierce

PFAS Regulatory Developments and Risk Considerations for Manufacturers 

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I. Overview of Federal Regulatory Developments Related to PFAS - Federal government activities with respect to regulation of PFAS in 2021, which will likely carry forward through 2024 include the following: ...more

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Biden’s Inauguration Day Executive Order on Environment and Energy Regulation

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On his first day in office on January 20, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order titled, “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis” (the Order). The Order...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Recent Actions on Ag Biotech by EPA’s Emerging Technologies Branch

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In this webinar, Keith Matthews from Wiley's Environment & Product Regulation group discusses recent actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division's (BPPD) Emerging...more

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EPA May Again Update Enforcement and Cleanup Policies in Light of New COVID-19 Executive Order

President Trump issued an Executive Order on Regulatory Relief to Support Economic Recovery on May 19. Generally, the Order directs federal agencies to respond to the COVID-19 crisis by “rescinding, modifying, waiving, or...more

Hogan Lovells

Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines – COVID-19 D.C. Update – May 2020 #13

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In Washington: President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing federal agencies to ease up on businesses that make good-faith attempts to follow agency guidance and regulations during the coronavirus pandemic....more

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Maine PFAS Tracker - Maine Standards and Proposed Actions (UPDATED)

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Pierce Atwood LLP offers this summary of Maine Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) standards as a convenience in evaluating PFAS and tracking Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) regulatory and Maine...more

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