Trump Administration, Critical Infrastructure Sectors, Proposed Rules

EPA Proposes Repeal of Legal Foundation for Greenhouse Gas Rules

Haynes Boone on 8/1/2025

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

CFIUS Continues Active 2020 With Proposed Rule Modifying Mandatory Declarations

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 5/27/2020

Since the beginning of 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) has issued numerous regulations to implement fully the Foreign Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA) on behalf of the Committee on Foreign...more

Commerce Department Issues New Proposed Rules on Telecommunications Supply Chain

Pillsbury - Global Trade & Sanctions Law on 12/2/2019

On November 27, 2019, the US Commerce Department published a proposed rule implementing regulations following President Trump’s May 15, 2019 Executive Order 13783 (E.O.) on Securing the Information and Communications...more

U.S. Commerce Department issues proposed rule to implement executive order on telecom supply chain

Hogan Lovells on 11/27/2019

On 26 November 2019 the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a long-awaited proposed rule (or draft regulations) to implement Executive Order 13873, "Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply...more

Expanding the National Security review of foreign investments - Long-awaited regulations provide definitions, exceptions and some...

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 9/20/2019

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) has now released for public comment its long awaited proposed regulations (“Proposed Regulations”) to implement the landmark Foreign Investment Risk Review...more

Plugging Holes in the Clean Water Act: EPA and ACOE Release their Proposed Replacement Rule Defining “WOTUS”

Robinson & Cole LLP on 12/28/2018

On December 11, 2018, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) announced proposed changes to the agencies’ definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS). This...more

Proposed Federal Clean Water Rule Impacts Cities and Residents - Comments Being Sought

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 12/13/2018

For the second time in the last 4 years, and the seventh since the Clean Water Act was adopted in 1972, the federal government has revised the definition of the term “Waters of the United States” for the purposes of the...more

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