Laws & Regulations

"Three rules set to finalize before Joe Biden’s inauguration could create a headache for his administration."

"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is moving to shut down Line 5 by revoking and ending a 1953 easement that allows Enbridge Energy to run the dual pipeline through the Straits of Mackinac."

"Three conservation groups are asking a judge to stop construction of a 145-mile (230-kilometer) power transmission line corridor to bring Canadian hydropower to the New England grid."

"Incoming leaders of the EPA air office will face a consequential choice: Which Trump administration rollbacks will they undo first?"

"Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen told prosecutors they needed more evidence to charge Zinke with lying to federal prosecutors."

"Some of the highest-profile EPA officials of the Obama administration are regrouping as members of President-elect Joe Biden's EPA transition team. The 12 members include several former officials who helped craft the agency's most consequential regulations dealing with air, climate and water — most of which have been rolled back by the Trump administration."

"The president-elect has vowed to not only reverse the Trump administration’s rollback of protected sites, but designate new ones."

"The SEC will have the power, under Democratic control, to mandate corporate disclosures on diversity and climate change risks, police more of Wall Street, and reverse recent efforts to ease capital raising in private markets in the coming years."

"The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted to ban natural gas in new buildings starting in 2021."