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The Supreme Court’s Administrative and Regulatory Law Rulings in the 2024 Term and Preview of Cases to Be Decided in Fall 2025

This post reviews the U.S. Supreme Court’s significant regulatory and administrative law decisions from the Court’s 2024 Term and previews cases on the docket for Fall 2025. ...more

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White House Aims To Accelerate Environmental Permitting For Data Centers

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On July 23, 2025, the White House issued an Executive Order titled “Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure.” Released alongside “America’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan,” the Order reflects a...more

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Trump Administration Issues Executive Order to Streamline Data Center Development

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On July 23, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (the "EO") that directs federal agencies to streamline permitting reviews, provide financial support, and utilize federal land for the expeditious development of...more

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Trump Administration Proposes New Nationwide Permit for Data Centers and other Permitting Reforms

On July 23, the White House released “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” (the "Plan") in response to President Trump’s January 23 Executive Order, “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial...more

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Winning the Race: White House Releases America's AI Action Plan

The Executive Office of the President of the United States released a July 2025 document titled: Winning the Race – America’s AI Action Plan (“Action Plan”). The stated objective of the Action Plan is to ensure the...more

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A “Golden Age” of Data Center Dominance

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A new executive order seeks to streamline funding for and construction of data center projects by reducing regulatory red tape. On July 23, 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order titled “Accelerating...more

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Summary of Trump Administration's Release of AI Action Plan

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Earlier this week, President Trump signed an Executive Order as part of the release of his AI Action Plan entitled “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan.” Led by White House AI and Crypto Czar, David Sacks, the...more

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EPA Proposes Repeal of 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards Amendments

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On June 11, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") announced a proposed rule to repeal key amendments to the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards ("MATS") for coal- and oil-fired electric utility steam...more

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EPA Proposes Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Standards for Power Plants

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On June 11, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") issued a proposed rule to repeal all greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions standards for fossil fuel-fired electric generating units ("EGUs") under § 111 of the...more

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Proposing Repeal of Energy-Related Regulations Impacting Energy Development

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On June 11, 2025, Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that in following up on the EPA’s “31 historic actions” announcement made back in March, the EPA is proposing two rules to repeal (1) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...more

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Trump Paves Way for Coal Renaissance and Targets State Climate Change Efforts

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In early April, President Trump issued several energy-related presidential actions aimed at reviving the coal industry. These actions could boost the domestic coal industry, including by rolling back environmental regulations...more

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Course Correction: Supreme Court Steers Toward Greater Predictability in NEPA Reviews

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On 29 May 2025, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that a “course correction” was needed for cases under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), holding that a law originally meant to be a procedural check to inform...more

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New York Fighting the Federal Government to Clear the Air on Congestion Pricing

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Ask any New Yorker what their top five complaints are about the city and either “traffic” or “gridlock” (or both) are all but certain to be represented. Indeed, you don’t get to be called “the Business Capital of the World”...more

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Texas BACT Is a Fact: The Texas Supreme Court Unpacks the Texas Clean Air Act’s BACT Definition

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Port Arthur Community Action Network (PACAN) v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality et al. (Tex. Feb. 14, 2025) presented the Texas Supreme Court with a unique opportunity to provide defined guideposts to understand...more

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US auto and transportation policy at an inflection point: A tale of two transportation trajectories?

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January 2025 – including the first 10 days of Donald Trump’s second term as President of the United States – likely marks the beginning of substantial changes in federal transportation law and regulation, including a number...more

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Declaring A National Energy Emergency (Trump EO Tracker)

Summary - This EO invokes authorities under the National Emergencies Act (NEA) to declare an energy emergency. Orders executive departments and agencies to identify and exercise any lawful emergency authorities available to...more

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New York’s Climate Superfund Act Forces Polluters to Fund State Climate Adaptation Projects

With the incoming Trump administration poised for an attack on federal environmental regulations, states are quickly emerging with actions on climate change. On December 26, 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into...more

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Industrials Regulatory News and Trends - January 2025

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China imposes export control measures on dozens of US manufacturers. On January 2, China announced new export control measures targeting 28 US companies and added 10 US companies to a list of entities barred from doing...more

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Transition Team: Association of Clean Water Administrators/National Association of Clean Air...

Ten national organizations that represent state, tribal, and local partners transmitted a January 6th letter to the United States Environmental Protection Agency Transition Team offering assistance to the second Trump...more

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New York’s “Climate Superfund” Bill becomes Law, Part of a Trend

In a “paradigm shift in environmental liability,” some states are seeking to legislate financial responsibility on large coal and oil & gas companies for the public costs associated with strengthening infrastructure against...more

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Trump's First 100 Days: Environmental

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At a high level, President-elect Trump is expected to issue executive orders to pause pending rules, use the Congressional Review Act to withdraw recently finalized rules, and halt agency activity while the administration...more

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The Trifecta: What to Expect from a Second Trump Administration and a Republican Congress

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Republicans have swept the 2024 elections, returning Donald Trump to the White House as the 47th President and flipping the Senate to a Republican majority. Having narrowly maintained control of the House of Representatives,...more

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Understanding the New EPA Fees for Oil and Gas Companies

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Oil and gas companies will soon be required to pay annual fees to the federal government based on their methane emissions. These fees, which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expects will exceed $2 billion over the...more

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Fiscal Year 2025: Biden Administration Budget Request

The Biden Administration has released its Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Proposal for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”). EPA Administrator Regan in a March 11th news release states that the Budget Request...more

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Particulate Matter/Revised National Ambient Air Quality Standard: 24 State Attorneys General (including Arkansas) Challenge U.S....

Twenty-four State Attorneys General filed a Petition for Review (“Petition for Review”) in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit challenging a United States Environmental Protection Agency...more

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