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Federal Regulatory Action Update Includes More Information About Review of the Clean Power Plan

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Anjali Patel

Last week the Trump Administration posted its Spring 2017 Update to the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Update) on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) website. The Update outlines … Continue reading →

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4th Circuit Vacates Ruling that EPA Must Consider Impact of its Regulations on Coal Jobs

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Anjali Patel

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued an order vacating a West Virginia Federal District Court decision that had held that Clean Air Act Section 321(a) required EPA to conduct an evaluation of the impact of Clean Air Act … Continue reading →

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D.C. Circuit Vacates EPA’s Stay of Methane Rule

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Jeff Bayne

On July 3, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted a group of environmental organizations’ challenge of the EPA’s decision to stay the implementation of a rule covering methane and other greenhouse gas emissions from the … Continue reading →

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EPA Proposes to Reinstate Pre-2015 Waters of the United States Rule, But More Changes Coming

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Jeff Bayne

The EPA, Department of Army, and Army Corps of Engineers (the agencies) have proposed to rescind their 2015 regulatory definition of “waters of the United States” and re-codify the prior definition of this term.  This definition is known as the … Continue reading →

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EPA Announces That It Has Sent a CPP-Related Proposed Rulemaking to OMB for Review

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Anjali Patel

On Monday, EPA filed a status report in the CPP litigation informing the court that it “has begun the interagency review process of a proposed regulatory action resulting from its review of the” Clean Power Plan.  The status report comes … Continue reading →

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