Law and Environment

JUNE 2, 2021

On May 20, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order to address predicted financial instability in the federal government as a result of climate change. To do so, the Executive Order directs several federal agencies to assess climate-finance risks and to recommend or issue policies to mitigate those risks.

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MAY 1, 2023

That has been a particular emphasis of the Biden Administration and is reflected in recent spending laws. From the start of his administration, Biden has linked jobs and workplace issues with climate action. Soon after taking office, Biden issued an executive order on “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.”

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 16, 2023

In 1982, the Reagan Administration was in full swing, and it was clearly no friend to either civil rights or environmental protection. Bush had taken some earlier steps, the foundational executive action on environmental justice was a 1994 executive order by President Clinton. Although President George H.W.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Whether those priorities lead to substantive changes would depend largely on the length of the new governor’s term, the technical capacity of the administration, and its focus on environmental issues among the many on the docket. Executive orders. Among them are: Agency leadership and appointments. Offshore wind. Offshore wind.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

An executive order requires federal agencies to establish energy and water conservation. The Food and Drug Administration is proposing changes to federal food safety requirements for ensuring that irrigation water does not contaminate crops. Much of the order is directed at the sources of energy used by the federal government.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

DEP took higher level enforcement actions against 15 other conventional operators for violations, including issuing Field Orders, Administrative Orders and Compliance Orders and obtaining Court Orders, for spills, illegal disposal of waste, creating a health and safety hazards by venting gas and erosion and sedimentation BMP failures.

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Nanotech

MARCH 29, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Over time, the agencies have been directed by Executive Orders (EO) to The post CRS Publishes Report on Regulation of Gene-Edited Plants and Issues for Congress appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 3, 2022

In an effort to “redress inequities in [Federal] policies and programs that serve as barriers to equal opportunity,” the Biden administration has set forth an agenda to identify areas of improvement and advance equity across the Federal Government. Data Collection. The Equity Action Plans lay the groundwork for the next steps in that process.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

On April 21, 2023, the Biden administration reinforced and expanded its commitment to promoting environmental justice by signing new Executive Order 14096, “Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

For instance, as the report notes, when Congress passed the Food Safety Modernization Act, it tasked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with creating detailed rules for food producers to follow. What the executive and legislative branches can do. Congress shares power with federal agencies. West Virginia v.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The plan calls for repealing the Inflation Reduction Act’s multi-billion-dollar funding for clean energy, repealing EPA’s keystone finding that carbon emissions are harmful, opening new areas to oil and gas drilling, and installing climate deniers in key positions in the executive branch.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

California’s State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) needs to be able to routinely require diverters to curtail (stop) unlawful water uses in order to protect water rights, human health and safety, and the environment from serious harm. As a result, the SWRCB issued curtailment orders months after they were warranted.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

The President’s Intelligence Advisory Board is an independent voice within the executive branch that assesses the performance of the nation’s intelligence agencies. President Biden delivered an executive order in January 2021 stating that climate change is “an essential element of United States foreign policy and national security.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A draft proposal from the Biden Administration to update NEPA’s implementing regulations is currently open for public comment until September 29 th and is worthy of your support. How does the Biden Administration want to update NEPA? Now the Administration has published Phase II rules and is seeking public comment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

One of the first analyses UCS undertook in 2021 was an effort to understand how many federal scientists had left without being replaced during the Trump administration. As the graph below shows, the EPA lost nearly 700 scientists during the Trump administration’s four years in office.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 29, 2024

The White House issued an executive order in 2023—a laudable first step— but it lacks enforcement. Laws should require disclosure on deepfakes of any person, not just politicians or candidates, to ensure that others involved in electoral systems, such as election administrators, are protected.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2024

As former EPA officials in the agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, we had a front row seat to how Justice40, a landmark initiative born via President Biden’s executive order 14008 , was rolled out. What the GAO should have said Fix #2: Appoint OMB as the lead White House entity for Justice40 oversight.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

On November 21, the Shapiro Administration released this statement on its decision to appeal the November 1 decision of Commonwealth Court declaring the DEP regulation limiting carbon pollution from power plants (RGGI) an “invalid tax" to the PA Supreme Court.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2024

I was heartened by the Biden-Harris administration’s sweeping executive order related to environmental justice (EO 14096), which was among the most explicit commitments to addressing environmental injustice made by any administration.

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Legal Planet

JULY 27, 2023

against an executive agency or officer. To be sure, States sometimes have standing to sue the United States or an executive agency or officer. State lawsuits against the Trump Administration helped prevent a lot of abuses. But some healthy skepticism about expansive claims of standing by states might be in order.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

On February 11, 2022, the Biden Administration’s climate change agenda sustained a major blow as Judge James D. Cain of the Western District of Louisiana enjoined a Biden administration executive order that charged federal agencies with considering the “social cost of carbon” in their decision making.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2023

Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2023-07 to improve the Commonwealth’s licensing, permitting, and certification processes, beginning a comprehensive review of how long it takes agencies to process applications and how workers and businesses apply online. Click Here for a copy of the Executive Order. On January 31, Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Out of the five federal agencies Thomas examined – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – the vast majority of scientists at each agency (89 to 96 percent) (..)

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Law and Environment

JUNE 28, 2021

At a whole-of-government level, on May 20, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order to address predicted financial instability in the federal government as a result of climate change. On the whole, the Executive Order is part of a growing trend in the Biden Administration of promoting corporate ESG standards and principles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

This initiative follows through on an executive order President Biden issued on his first day in office to advance racial equity and support underserved communities. The administration seems serious in its commitment.

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National Law Center

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When the Biden Administration took office in January, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order requiring all federal agencies to review. The post Biden Administration Begins Review of Environmental Regulations appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 21, 2022

The House January 6 th Insurrection committee hearings have revealed how a sustained and coordinated disinformation campaign radicalized a critical mass of people to commit violence in order to try to destabilize democracy and overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election.

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JULY 20, 2023

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released its own scientific integrity policy, and the Biden administration took steps to make the regulatory process more inclusive. Raimondo , which will provide another opportunity for the Court to limit the power of the executive branch to write regulations based on agency expertise.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the fourth quarter of 2023, the Biden administration finalized updated procedures for conducting cost-benefit analysis and encouraging public participation in meetings about regulations. These meetings—referred to as EO 12866 meetings after the Clinton-era executive order that described them—tend to be dominated by regulated industry.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2023

It also featured the participation of US EPA Region 9 Administrator Martha Guzman Acevez, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs Director Wahleah Johns, and the California Natural Resources Agency’s Assistant Secretary for Tribal Affairs, Geneva Thompson.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

Shapiro signed an executive order to improve response times and give Pennsylvanians more certainty when they apply for licenses, permits, or certificates through the Commonwealth. As of May 1, all Pennsylvania agencies covered under the executive order have met the Governor’s deadline and completed this process.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 4, 2021

As E&E News reported today, the Biden administration is expected to announce tomorrow new fuel economy and tailpipe emissions standards for light-duty vehicles model years (MY) 2023 through 2026. Ground was lost during the Trump years, and the administration needs to play catch up to account for those losses.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Research by ecologists and economists in recent years has demonstrated the extremely high costs of replacing many of these services if they were to fail — on the order of many billions of dollars in the United States for pollination alone. The costs from reducing natural capital are high, suffered in rich and poor countries alike.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 13, 2022

Recent developments in the challenge to an executive order from the Biden Administration in Louisiana v. Biden brings it to the forefront of discussion regarding how executive actions and similar sweeping environmental regulations are likely to be judged in the future. The plaintiff states in Louisiana v.

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NRDC

MARCH 16, 2023

New guidance from the Federal Highway Administration fails to live up to President Biden’s executive orders to advance equity and consider climate impacts in federal actions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released its own scientific integrity policy, and the Biden administration took steps to make the regulatory process more inclusive. Raimondo , which will provide another opportunity for the Court to limit the power of the executive branch to write regulations based on agency expertise.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Strengthen the Civil Rights Act and codify into law President Clinton’s Executive Order (EO) 12898 that directed federal agencies to develop environmental justice strategies.

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