Trump Administration, NPRM, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

EPA Initiates Rulemaking to Eliminate the 2009 GHG Endangerment Finding

Jones Day on 8/1/2025

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") proposes rescission of the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which underpins greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act....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

NHTSA and EPA propose roll back of Obama-era car rules

Hogan Lovells on 8/3/2018

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a joint notice of proposed rulemaking today, called the "Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles...more

Clean Power Plan Repeal: October 10th Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 10/12/2017

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) October 10th that would repeal the Clean Power Plan (“CPP”)....more

Trump Track: EPA Moves on its Plan to Repeal [and Eventually Replace?] the Clean Power Plan

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 10/12/2017

On October 10, 2017, EPA announced it is taking steps to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP), regulations put in place in 2015 which requires existing power plants to roll back their CO2 emissions by 2030. EPA is taking the...more

Methane Rule Can’t Be Paused, But Maybe It Can Be Stopped

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 7/10/2017

This week, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) vacated the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 90-day stay of an Obama-era rule regulating methane emissions from oil and...more