On-Demand Webinar | Recent Updates to Federal Environmental and Natural Resource Regulations
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding former President Joe Biden’s executive order increasing the minimum wage applicable to employees of certain...more
President Joe Biden has designated two more national monuments in California, spanning 848,000 acres - the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument. The Chuckwalla National Monument creates...more
The Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act of 2024 (S. 2781) was signed into law on December 17, 2024, by President Joe Biden. This was a bipartisan measure consisting of 21 Republicans, 17 Democrats, and...more
This is the first edition of Holland & Knight's Federal Real Estate Leasing Year in Review. For years, our GSA Leasing & Federal Real Estate Team has worked with LexisNexis to provide updated versions of the Federal...more
The United States Forest Service (“Service”) issued an April 2023 report titled: Mature and Old-Growth Forests: Definition, Identification, and Initial Inventory on Lands Managed by the Forest Service/Bureau of Land...more
The Biden Administration recently held a Tribal Nations Summit in Washington, D.C. At the Summit, the Administration announced a number of new actions, in particular, new initiatives relating to Tribal consultation. The...more
In a recent span of thirty days, the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) and the Biden Administration announced no fewer than seven key policy proposals with the potential to greatly benefit tribes, tribal organizations and...more
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has announced the first onshore lease sale for drilling on federal lands since President Joe Biden took office, but the new leases will have different terms than all prior lease...more
Federal Law Challenges by State Attorneys General - Attorneys General Challenge “Tax Mandate” Portion of American Rescue Plan - On March 11, 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law the $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan...more
President Biden's Executive Orders Mobilize the Administrative State to Address Climate Change - On January 27th, the White House held a “Climate Day” press briefing where President Biden, Special Presidential Envoy for...more
This week, as part of a series of significant executive actions, President Biden issued an executive order directing the United States Department of Interior (DOI) to pause new oil and natural gas leasing on federal public...more
Today, President Biden issued the much awaited Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad (the “Order”). Section 208 orders a “pause” on issuing new oil and gas leases on public lands or offshore waters...more
The social cost of carbon (SCC) has a checkered regulatory history spanning nearly 40 years, but it now has been thrust back onto the federal stage, front and center. Among President Joe Biden's first acts in office was a...more
On his first days in office, President Joe Biden is expected to sign a flurry of executive actions, some of which will reverse decisions made by his predecessor, President Donald Trump. The first few Biden Administration...more
As a result of an Executive Order issued by President Biden on January 20, 2021, federal contractors should expect new PPE requirements and possible facility access or capacity restrictions due to social distancing guidelines...more