Trump Administration, Administrative Procedure Act, Environmental Litigation

Project Opponents of Empire Wind Strike Back

Robinson+Cole Environmental Law + on 6/5/2025

As recently reported, on May 19, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Interior reversed the stop work order it issued on April 16, 2025, thereby allowing the $5 billion, 2 GW, Empire Wind project to proceed. On June 3, 2025, a...more

Recent Rulings Against Trump Administration Funding Freezes

ArentFox Schiff on 5/27/2025

Shortly after taking office, President Trump froze funding already allocated to various parties, citing the Administration’s disapproval of issues including climate change and social equity. Additionally, executive agencies...more

NEPA Regulations Unravel

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 2/20/2025

The National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, is in the midst of a major judicial and regulatory shakeup. In the past three months, four major events have thrown the validity of NEPA regulations into doubt ...more

California Environmental Law & Policy Update - August 2020 #2

Allen Matkins on 8/14/2020

Federal court blocks Interior Department’s relaxation of migratory bird safeguards - U.S. News & World Report – August 12 - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York this Tuesday struck down a U.S....more

Eliminating a Moratorium Affecting 1.86 Billion Tons of Coal Is Final Agency Action

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law on 4/26/2019

In 2016, DOI Secretarial Order 3338 imposed a moratorium on new coal leases on federal land until BLM prepared a programmatic environmental impact statement intended to address, among other issues, the impact of coal leasing...more

Sue and Settle is Gone: EPA Administrator Revises EPA Litigation Policy

Williams Mullen on 11/20/2017

A prominent characteristic of the Obama EPA was its close relationship with national environmental groups. The most controversial EPA rulemakings seemed to be the by-product of litigation settlements when environmental...more