Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (Basel Convention) have agreed to take up work on how transboundary movements of waste textiles and their…
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/ Environmental Law, International Law & Trade
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) initiating a comprehensive review of its Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR). The ANPRM solicits…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Transportation
On June 9, 2025, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) published a request for information (RFI) seeking to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of key permitting programs under Section 10(a) of the Endangered Species Act…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
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While the Trump administration has taken action to eliminate environmental justice (EJ) programs at the federal level, state programs with EJ laws and policies remain in place and apply to regulated entities…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law
On May 23, 2025, Maine’s Governor Janet Mills signed into law “An Act to Require Landowners to Report Their Participation in a Forest Carbon Program or Project” (H.P.3 – L.D. 39; codified at 12 MRSA § 8881, sub-§2-A-C; 12 MRSA §…
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/ Agriculture, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) asking for stakeholder feedback on Pipeline Safety Regulations (PSR) that unduly burden the…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
After a period of uncertainty, how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to revise its implementation of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) during the second Trump administration is coming into focus..…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law
The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) issued a Request for Information (RFI) asking affected industries to identify existing Interior regulations that can be modified or repealed to support the Trump administration’s "energy…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
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Federal citizen suits are likely to become more frequent as the federal government decreases its enforcement efforts. Federal courts are split on whether Clean Water Act (CWA) citizen suits can enforce permit…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law
New NEPA Limits on the Horizon -
It has been a year of major change for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), marked by various court decisions, executive orders, and the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) total…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Transportation
This alert was first published on May 8, 2025, and has been revised based on recent developments.
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The Maryland General Assembly concluded its spring 2025 legislative session on April 7, 2025. The General…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
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What Is Happening? On March 7, 2025, Governor Newsom declined to adopt CalRecycle’s initial draft regulations under California’s Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (SB 54),…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Environmental Law
On April 30, 2025, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) issued the first draft of the Ecological and Environmental Code (the Draft Code) for public comment. This legislation is designed to integrate…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law
Two weeks after U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Zeldin outlined the agency’s PFAS plan in broad strokes, EPA provided more detail on how it intends to proceed with respect to drinking water standards for…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
Federal wildlife trafficking and animal cruelty enforcement is alive and well even as the Trump administration re-allocates U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) resources. At first blush, enforcing wildlife trafficking crimes may…
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/ Criminal Law, Environmental Law, International Law & Trade
