United States: Environment

The white paper notes that EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) is a risk-based program, meaning that both hazard and exposure are taken into consideration when evaluating the risk of pesticides, including genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes

On July 31, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") published a notice in the Federal Register, titled "Guidance on Referrals for Potential Criminal Enforcement...

Under Secretary Doug Burgum, the Department of the Interior (DOI) has quickly moved to implement Sections 4 and 5 of President Trump's 7 July Executive Order 14315 titled "Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign-Controlled Energy Sources."

Over the last four months, carbon prices have tumbled nearly 70 percent amid fears that oversupply and lagging economic growth in Europe will drive down demand.

The European Commission’s recent proposals to revise and recast the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, or MiFID, and the Market Abuse Directive, or MAD, include, for the first time, regulating carbon emissions allowances as financial instruments.

On Thursday, May 26, 2011, the Secretary of the Interior announced a joint effort between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ("USFWS") and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service ("NMFS") (collectively, "the Agencies") to identify and implement administrative reforms to the regulatory process used to implement the Endangered Species Act ("ESA").

Yesterday, the California Air Resources Board held its second marathon virtual public workshop on California's pending corporate climate disclosure laws.

The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), in force since January 1, 2024, mandates that "relevant commodities" linked to deforestation...

On August 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied a motion for preliminary injunction filed by a coalition of business groups seeking to halt...

Under California's Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (SB 54), deadlines are currently set for this Fall.

A rarely-used Clean Air Act provision just allowed the White House to delay compliance deadlines—bypassing the EPA's rulemaking process. Claire Glenn lays out what that means for regulated industries...

First effective in 2024, the Act bans the sale or distribution of various products that contain intentionally added PFAS chemicals.