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Introducing Wiley’s Trump Administration Resource Center & Guide – Your Essential Tools for 2025

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As President-Elect Trump’s second Administration begins in January 2025, businesses face a critical juncture with potential shifts in regulatory focus across industries and sectors including artificial intelligence,...more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update 11.8.24

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In the last four years, California has adopted some of the nation’s most innovative air regulations, including a ban on new gasoline-powered car sales by 2035 and a prohibition against diesel-fueled trucks visiting state...more

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Biden Administration Proposes Significant Revisions to Trump-Era Nondiscrimination Regulations

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On July 25, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a long-awaited proposed rule on Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the nondiscrimination protections...more

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Anticipate These Changes to Your Title IX “To-Do” List

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On June 23, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) announced that it intends to amend the current Title IX regulations that were instituted under the Trump administration in May of 2020. The Department’s...more

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Court Vacates Trump-Era ESA Regulations

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On July 5, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order vacating three Trump-era regulations implementing the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”)....more

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Habitat Definition No Longer Applies in Critical Habitat Designations

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On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (collectively, Services) published a final rule rescinding the Trump administration’s 2020 final rule defining “habitat” for the...more

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Biden Revisions to the NEPA Regulations Now in Effect

The Biden Administration is amending the federal regulations for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to reverse certain changes made by the Trump Administration. The first set of amendments took effect...more

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OFCCP Announces Rescission of 2020 Rule Expanding the Religious Exemption Under Executive Order 11246

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On November 9, 2021, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a proposed rule rescinding its December 2020 Final Rule broadening the religious exemption from Executive Order 11246’s...more

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump Administration’s Federal Wetlands Regulations Rule

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Yesterday, a federal judge vacated the Trump Administration's Navigable Waters Protection Rule (“NWPR”) that had narrowed the scope of federal jurisdiction over wetlands. ...more

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Biden Administration Begins Process of Revising Waters of the U.S. Rule

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) announced on Aug. 4, 2021, the start of a long anticipated rulemaking process to revise the regulatory definition of "waters of the U.S."...more

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Waters of the United States/Clean Water Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/Corps of Engineers Announce Upcoming Public...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency and Corps of Engineers (collectively “Corps”) issued a July 30th news release announcing plans for: . . . upcoming community engagements to inform their efforts to revise the...more

Jones Day

Federal Court Dismisses NEPA Challenge, Leaving Trump-Era Regulations in Effect, but Stalled During Biden Reconsideration

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On June 21, 2021, a federal district court in Virginia dismissed a lawsuit filed by environmental groups against the Trump-era overhaul of regulations under the National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA"). Our prior article...more

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Trump Administration Bird Rule on the Chopping Block

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On May 7, 2021, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), as many anticipated, published a proposed rule to revoke a Trump Administration rule impacting the scope of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA).  The Trump...more

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Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency release proposals to reconsider and potentially repeal Trump SAFE...

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In two recent agency actions, the Biden administration has taken steps to initiate reconsideration of the former administration's greenhouse gas and fuel economy rules for light duty vehicles that could facilitate enforcement...more

Morgan Lewis

UPDATE: Trump Administration’s Midnight Rulemaking to Exempt Certain Class I and II Devices from 510(k) Requirement Rescinded

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In a not-so-unexpected turn of events, the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rescinded a notice issued by the Trump administration’s HHS...more

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Environmental Groups File Suit to Overturn “Do Nothing” (Ozone Standards)

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Environmental groups have sued the EPA to overturn its December 31st rule retaining Obama Era National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone.  The suit alleges that the Trump EPA ignored science and mounting...more

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President Biden Issues Executive Order Addressing Sexism and Structural Racism, and Rescinding the Trump Administration’s...

On January 20, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order entitled “On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.”  The Executive Order initially recognizes that...more

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Made in America – President Biden’s Executive Order on Buying (Even More?) American

On January 25, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on “Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers,” laying his administration’s foundation for further strengthening Buy American...more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update - January 2021

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Trump administration reverses migratory bird protections - Bullet The New York Times – December 21 - The U.S. Department of the Interior this Tuesday finalized a reversal of protections for wild birds under the 1918...more

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California Judge Halts President Trump’s Workplace Diversity Training Order

You may recall from my earlier blog that a group of organizations and individuals who specialize in the delivery of high-quality health care and other critical services to members of the LGBT community filed suit in...more

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Tracking Environmental Midnight Rules as the Clock Ticks down on the Trump Administration

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With a new year approaching, so does the imminence of a new presidential administration. The Biden team and transition team have laid out environmental policies since early in the campaign....more

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Federal Contractors Should Be on the Lookout for Change in 2021, But Plan for Now

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Commentators are speculating on how quickly the Biden Administration may reverse course on three (3) of 2020’s significant developments at the Office for Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”)...more

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HHS ends FDA Unapproved Drugs Initiative, seeks to limit which drugs require FDA approval

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On November 20, 2020, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) announced that the Department was terminating the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Marketed Unapproved Drugs Initiative (UDI)....more

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Gray Wolf Removed from Endangered Species List & Environmental Groups File Notice of Intent to Sue

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On November 3, 2020, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service (“Service”) published a final rule removing the gray wolf (canis lupus) from the federal list of Endangered and Threatened Species in the lower 48 United States...more

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[Webinar] Power Shift: Regulatory Reform in a Biden Administration - December 9th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CT

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President-Elect Joe Biden has promised to change course, including on a number of the Trump Administration’s signature (de)regulatory and executive actions — from energy and the environment to public health, immigration, and...more

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