Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The policy details within each action roughly correspond with recommendations in Project 2025, the infamous policy agenda penned by figures from the first Trump administration and supported by several anti-climate organizations. API markets these proposals as bolstering the country’s geopolitical strength.

Fossil Fuels

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

Additionally, a report located here provides an overview of fiscal year 2025 appropriations made for Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related agencies. The report available here , although written a month before the OBBBA’s final passage, provides an overview of conservation funding changes made in the bill.

2013

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. Trump wants to Make Weather a Mystery Again. Deep breath.

Law

National Law Center

JULY 10, 2025

3, Issue 12, from July 10, 2025. 3, Issue 13 (July 10, 2025). Click below to sign up for The Feed, and also read the PDF for Vol. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here to view Vol. Share: Recent Posts The Feed: Vol.

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

A former member of Congress from Long Island, New York, with scant regulatory experience, Zeldin promised to defer to the research of the scientists on whether climate change made oceans more acidic. Project 2025 , the blueprint organized by the Heritage Foundation to guide this White House, calls for an update to the endangerment finding.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

That same day, Trump signed a trio of congressional resolutions that improperly seek to vaporize California’s long-standing authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate vehicle pollution to clean our air. That last one got less coverage than it deserves.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

The lawsuit, brought by railroad industry groups, had been held in abeyance since September 30, 2024, awaiting a determination by EPA on which portions of the regulation would require EPA authorization under the Clean Air Act and whether to grant such authorization. Department of the Interior on April 23, 2025.

Climate Change

National Law Center

JULY 21, 2025

It has been informally referred to as the “ One Big Beautiful Bill Act ,” or “OBBBA.” For fiscal year 2028, a state can choose to use its payment error rate from 2025 or 2026; however, for fiscal year 2029 and beyond, the payment error rate for the third fiscal year preceding the fiscal year being calculated will be used.

2013

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

Executive Order - Sunset Dates The President signed an executive order requiring 10 federal agencies and subagencies with regulations covering energy and energy production to adopt a regulation by September 2025 inserting a one year expiration dates on existing regulations and a five year expiration date on all new regulations.

Regulations

National Law Center

JULY 11, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 11 Jul NALC news release: NALC’s Pittman discusses foreign investments in U.S.

2013

National Law Center

AUGUST 5, 2025

State of the current system In June 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report evaluating the FDA’s efforts in inspected domestic food facilities. The OIG report follows a January 2025 report from the U.S. To read the full report, click here. food supply.

2013

National Law Center

JUNE 12, 2025

3, Issue 11, from June 12, 2025. 3, Issue 11 (June 12, 2025). Click below to sign up for The Feed, and also read the PDF for Vol. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here to view Vol. Share: Recent Posts The Feed: Vol.

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JUNE 26, 2025

3, Issue 12, from June 26, 2025. 3, Issue 12 (June 26, 2025). Robbins FDA Updates: June 2025 The Feed: Vol. Click below to sign up for The Feed, and also read the PDF for Vol. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here to view Vol. Share: Recent Posts The Feed: Vol. 3, Issue 12 Who Gets to Say?

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JULY 17, 2025

(CFIUS) Commodity Credit Corporation Department of Energy Department of Labor Environmental Protection Agency Farm Service Agency Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Fish and Wildlife Service Food and Drug Administration Food and Nutrition Service Food Safety and Inspection Service Foreign Agricultural Service Forest (..)

Law

National Law Center

AUGUST 1, 2025

Outlined below are many of the new NALC resources from July 2025. Link to interview: [link] July 18 – In-person presentation on “MAHA and Agriculture: Overview, Update, & Looking Ahead” at the 2025 Arkansas Farm Bureau’s Officers and Leaders Conference in Rogers, AR.

2013

National Law Center

JUNE 24, 2025

Robbins FDA Updates: June 2025 The Feed: Vol. For more information on administrative law from the National Agricultural Law Center, click here. Share: Recent Posts Who Gets to Say? Agency Deference in a Post-Chevron World: Auer v.

2013

National Law Center

JULY 1, 2025

North Dakota – Senate Bill 2386 , signed into law by the North Dakota governor on March 21 st , 2025, allows multiple new expansions to cottage food producer freedoms. Texas- In 2025, Texas enacted Senate Bill 541 , an update to its cottage food laws. Robbins FDA Updates: June 2025 The Feed: Vol.

Law

National Law Center

JUNE 4, 2025

In the Express Grain case, then-CEO John Coleman was sentenced by a federal judge in March 2025 to 10 years in prison, plus five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay over $69 million in restitution. While that decision ruled in favor of the farmers, the Arkansas Supreme Court overturned the ruling in 2022.

Law

National Law Center

JUNE 17, 2025

Approval of three new additives Following the April 22, 2025 announcement of its plan to “phase out” petroleum-based synthetic color additives from the food supply, in May the FDA announced its approval of three new natural color additives. Following the meeting, a public comment period was open until January 21, 2025.

2025

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

CFIUS) , Foreign Ownership , Land Ownership , NALC Staff , United States Department of Agriculture by NALC staff On June 23, 2025, the House passed the Agricultural Risk Review Act ( H.R. 1713 ) which seeks to increase governmental oversight of certain foreign acquisitions in U.S. agriculture, particularly in farmland.

2013

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

Texas is one of nine states to enact or amend a foreign ownership law during the 2025 legislative session and now becomes the twenty-eighth state to adopt legislation prohibiting certain foreign investments in land. SB 17 is set to go into effect on September 1, 2025. To read SB 17, click here. agriculture, click here.

Law

National Law Center

JULY 1, 2025

Outlined below are many of the new NALC resources from June 2025. Blog Posts New Addition to Foreign Ownership Law Trend: West Virginia Enacts Restriction on Foreign-Controlled Entities Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional FDA Updates: June 2025 Who Gets to Say? Agency Deference in a Post-Chevron World: Auer v.

Endangered Species Act

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

USA: Stop the Formosa Plastics Plant Coalition Against Death Alley | 2021 As part of the fossil fuel industry’s push to increase North American plastic production by 35 percent by 2025(1), Formosa Plastics is planning to build a massive petrochemical industrial complex in St. James Parish, Louisiana. USA: Formosa Plastics Corp.,

2016

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare.

Fossil Fuels

ESA

APRIL 27, 2023

NOAA: The House Science Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow, Tuesday, April 18, to consider Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK)’s draft legislation to take the National Oceanic Administration out of the Department of Commerce and make NOAA into an independent agency. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Request for Nominations.

2023

ESA

APRIL 18, 2023

NOAA: The House Science Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow, Tuesday, April 18, to consider Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK)’s draft legislation to take the National Oceanic Administration out of the Department of Commerce and make NOAA into an independent agency. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Request for Nominations.

2023

ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

Chellie Pingree (D-ME)’s Coastal Communities Acidification Act ( H.R. 676 ), which requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to collaborate with state and local governments and Indian Tribes on vulnerability assessments related to ocean acidification. Another bill ( H.R.

2023

ESA

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship provides a unique educational and professional experience to graduate students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Feb.

2022