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SEC Withdraws Defense of Climate Disclosure Rules

As a follow-up to our blog post in February about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) pause in defending its Climate Disclosure Rules, on March 27, the SEC notified the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit...more

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New Guidance for Defining the ‘Waters of the United States’

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The Environmental Protection Agency announced March 10 it will be revising the definition for the Waters of the United States Rule (WOTUS). In a news release it said, “[t]he agencies will move quickly to ensure that a revised...more

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RMP Rulemaking Redux

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Risk Management Program (RMP) regulations, 40 C.F.R. Part 68, appear to be headed back to rulemaking. These much-debated provisions have been amended, rescinded, and...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Will Review 2024 Rule Amending the TSCA Risk Evaluation Framework Rule

On March 10, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its intent to reconsider the May 3, 2024, rule amending the procedural framework rule for conducting risk evaluations under the Toxic Substances...more

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Announces 31 Actions

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On March 12, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the agency is undertaking 31 significant actions in furtherance of the President’s Inaugural Day Executive Orders....more

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CEQ Issues Memorandum on NEPA Implementation: Top Points

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The Trump Administration has begun operationalizing its regulatory strategy for projects requiring evaluation under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). In this alert, we discuss two key actions being taken and key...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Council on Environmental Quality Rescinds NEPA Regulations

Federal agencies are now responsible for their own National Environmental Policy Act procedures, creating uncertainty and opportunity for federal environmental reviews....more

Saul Ewing LLP

The Three Things You Should Know About the Council on Environmental Quality’s Removal of its National Environmental Policy Act...

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On February 25, 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued an interim final rule rescinding its regulations under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)....more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update 2.28.25

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On February 20, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) posted a pre-publication notice on its website of an Interim Final Rule rescinding its regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act...more

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CEQ Scraps NEPA Regulations, Paves Way for Shake-Up in Environmental Law

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Our Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group breaks down the Interim Final Rule and guidance issued by the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) on February 19, 2025....more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

TSCA Developments — A Conversation with Richard E. Engler, Ph.D.

This week, I discuss Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) developments with my colleague, Dr. Richard E. Engler, Director of Chemistry for B&C and The Acta Group (Acta®), our consulting affiliate. The U.S. Environmental...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Major Changes in National Environmental Policy Act Process

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The Council for Environmental Quality’s (“CEQ”) published an interim final rule yesterday repealing all of its implementing regulations for the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). The interim final rule becomes...more

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EPA Grants West Virginia Primacy for Class VI Wells

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This grant of authority could accelerate the permitting process for carbon capture and storage projects in the state. On February 18, 2025, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved a final rule granting West...more

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Trump Administration Moves to Dismantle NEPA

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Late last week, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released a pre-publication version of a new rule, which would remove the implementing regulations for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in line with the...more

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Four Things to Know: Upcoming Changes to NEPA Regulations and Environmental Reviews

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On February 19, 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) released a pre-publication version of an interim final rule (the “Interim Rule”) to rescind all of CEQ’s previous and current regulations implementing the...more

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The CEQ has No Clothes: The End of CEQ’s NEPA Regulations and the Future of NEPA Practice

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On February 20, 2025, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) posted a pre-publication notice on its website of an Interim Final Rule that rescinds its regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy...more

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CEQ Regulations Replaced by Guidance for a Year of Living in Uncertainty

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On February 19, 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) submitted to the Federal Register an interim final rule rescinding its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations, which have been the foundation for...more

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President Trump Moves to Repeal NEPA Regulations

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On February 19, the White House unveiled an interim final rule (IFR) to rescind all National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing regulations that the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has promulgated since 1977....more

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Presidential Freeze May Put SEC Final Climate Rule on Ice

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On February 11, 2025, acting SEC Chair Mark Uyeda announced that the commission is reconsidering the final enhanced and standardized climate-related disclosure rule it adopted in March 2024. Although the final climate rule...more

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Republican AGs Want to Vaporize EPA Rule Imposing Methane Charges

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A group of 23 Republican AGs filed a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit of the EPA’s Final Rule requiring charges on certain oil and gas producers exceeding Congressional methane emissions...more

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EPA Issues Final Rules Prohibiting Uses of Industrial Solvents TCE and PCE

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued final rules banning the majority of uses of two solvents, trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE), under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control...more

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National Environmental Policy Act Regulations: Phase 2 – What Else Has Changed?

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This is the fifth in a series of six eAlerts on the Bipartisan Permitting Reform Implementation Rule published in the Federal Register on May 1, 2024 (Final Rule) by the Council for Environmental Quality (CEQ). The Final Rule...more

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National Environmental Policy Act Regulations: Phase 2 – Public Engagement

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This is the fourth in a series of six eAlerts examining the Bipartisan Permitting Reform Implementation Rule published in the Federal Register on May 1, 2024 (Final Rule) by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). The...more

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National Environmental Policy Act Regulations: Phase 2 – A Deeper Dive, Part 1

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On May 1, 2024, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published its final Bipartisan Permitting Reform Implementation Rule (Final Rule), that revises regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),...more

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CEQ Finalizes NEPA Phase Two Rulemaking

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The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) finalized its Phase Two revisions to its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing regulations on April 30, 2024, following an effort initiated in 2021 to “revise,...more

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