President Biden

June 9, 2023

Biden Administration Seeks Public Comment on Expanding Environmental Justice Initiatives to Ocean-Related Activities

On June 8, 2023, the Council on Environmental Quality, on behalf of the Ocean Policy Committee (OPC), published a Federal Register request for information seeking public input on the development of a new “Ocean Justice Strategy.” The OPC is a Congressionally mandated interagency body tasked with coordinating ocean science, technology and management policy across Federal… Continue reading

Climate Change, Water

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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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April 22, 2022

Embracing the Winds of Change Through Investments in the United States’ Energy Future

When the wind of change blows, some people build walls, others build windmills.” While this ancient Chinese proverb most likely did not envision the construction of large-scale, offshore wind farms, its wisdom remains strikingly applicable to the United States’ energy and infrastructure policies in the 21st Century. Continue reading

Air, Real Estate and Environment, Sustainability, Water

clean energy, Earth Day, electric grid, infrastructure, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Matthew G. Lawson, President Biden
April 20, 2021

Earth Day 2021: Climate Change under the Biden Administration

President Biden has made climate change a main focus of his administration. At the beginning of his term, Biden issued several executive orders addressing climate change: “Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis” (January 20, 2021) and “Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at… Continue reading

Air, Climate Change

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March 3, 2021

OSHA under Deadline for a Nationwide COVID 19 Workplace Safety Rule: Four States’ Existing Laws and New Federal Guidance and Orders Foretell the Future

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, 2021. Executive… Continue reading

Contamination, COVID-19, OSHA

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February 16, 2021

Biden Administration Confirms COVID-19 Liability Protections for Federal Contractors, Employees and Volunteers

On February 16, 2021, Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) Norris Cochran, published in the Federal Register the Sixth Amendment to the Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Act [“PREP Act”]. 86 Fed. Reg. 9516-9520 (Feb. 16, 2021). This is the second amendment to the Declaration issued since… Continue reading

COVID-19, Sustainability

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