Continuing a Trump Administration series of Executive Orders, Presidential Memoranda, and Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") guidance documents that direct federal agencies to fundamentally change their rulemaking...more
The Trump Administration's January 30 Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs established broad principles that federal agencies are now expected to follow: (1) for every new regulation an...more
The passage of the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act ("2016 TSCA Amendments") was a rare bipartisan success story. However, the August 9-10th Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") stakeholder public comment meetings on the...more
The warm summer breeze you felt on July 27th may have been caused by the collective sigh of relief from the nation’s manufacturers and mining companies over the Ninth Circuit’s holding that Teck Cominco (a mining company)...more
Changes to the Toxic Substance Control Act (“TSCA”), resulting from the recently passed Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (“LCSA”), are quickly taking form. The Environmental Working Group (“EWG”),...more
After extensive deliberation, Congress has crafted a carefully worded overhaul of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the primary federal statute that regulates the chemicals ultimately used to manufacture most products....more