Executive Order

April 26, 2023

Biden Administration Underscores Environmental Justice Commitment with Earth Week Executive Order

Capping off Earth Week 2023, President Biden on Friday signed an executive order expanding the Administration’s Justice40 Initiative and creating a new White House Office of Environmental Justice. Continue reading

Sustainability

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March 18, 2021

Where is OSHA’s COVID-19 ETS? No Where the Ides of March.

On his first full day in office, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety, which required OSHA to “consider whether any emergency temporary standards on COVID 19, including with respect to masks in the workplace, are necessary,” and if so, to issue such emergency temporary standards (ETS) by March 15,… Continue reading

COVID-19, OSHA

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June 28, 2017

EPA Announces Proposed Rule to Rescind ‘Waters of the United States’ Rule

On June 27, 2017, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers will be publishing a proposed rule (the Recodification Rule) that would rescind the Obama Administration’s definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) under the Clean Water Act (CWA). Continue reading

Real Estate and Environment, Water

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April 12, 2017

Litigation in D.C. Circuit Court Put on Hold While EPA Reconsiders 2015 Ozone Air Quality Standards

On Tuesday, April 11th, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted EPA’s motion to continue oral argument and indefinitely delay any decision on challenges to the agency’s 2015 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone in the case of Murray Energy Corp. v. EPA, Case No. 15-1385. Continue reading

Air

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October 27, 2016

Trade Associations Obtain Nationwide Injunction Against Portions of the “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” Regulatory Scheme, and Agencies Stand Down (For Now)

Portions of the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces regulations, specifically those related to reporting violations of labor laws and restricting mandatory arbitration, have been enjoined on a nationwide basis by the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (“District Court”). The paycheck transparency provisions were upheld by the District Court and remain enforceable. Following… Continue reading

OSHA

DOL, Executive Order, Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces, FAR Council, labor, Safety

Executive Order

Biden Administration Underscores Environmental Justice Commitment with Earth Week Executive Order

Where is OSHA’s COVID-19 ETS? No Where the Ides of March.

EPA Announces Proposed Rule to Rescind ‘Waters of the United States’ Rule

Litigation in D.C. Circuit Court Put on Hold While EPA Reconsiders 2015 Ozone Air Quality Standards

Trade Associations Obtain Nationwide Injunction Against Portions of the “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” Regulatory Scheme, and Agencies Stand Down (For Now)