Welcome to the Fall 2016 edition of Environmental Policy Quarterly, published jointly by the Environmental, Land and Natural Resources and the Public Policy and Law Practice Groups of K&L Gates. Environmental Policy Quarterly highlights significant developments and issues of public policy relating to the environment and natural resources in the United States and globally.

This edition includes observations by leading members of our Policy Practice about the potential impact of the Presidential election upon our country’s environmental legal landscape. This edition also continues our focus on reforms to the Toxic Substance Control Act and the congressional response, through the Water Resources Development Act, to the Flint Michigan water crisis. We are pleased that this issue includes the insights and contributions of K&L Gates lawyers who are actively involved in these matters on a daily basis.