On September 4, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced over 100 actions as part of its upcoming regulatory agenda. These plans were included in the White House's semiannual "Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions," in which every...
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Maine Continues to Lay the Groundwork for One of the Nation’s Strongest PFAS Consumer Product Bans
On August 21, 2025, the Maine Board of Environmental Protection held its public hearing on its first wave of currently unavoidable use (CUU) determinations under Maine’s PFAS in products law, 38 M.R.S. § 1614, which prohibits the sale of consumer products containing...
April NEPA Roundup
April 2025 has been a turbulent time for NEPA. It started with the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) circulating a draft template federal agencies on April 8 to assist them in updating their procedures for implementing the National Environmental...
Removal of NEPA Implementing Regulations to Alter Landscape of Federal Environmental Review
On February 25, 2025, the Counsel on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the advisory agency within the Executive Office of the President meant to assist and advise the President on certain environmental matters including the administration of the National Environmental...