"Administration officials are mindful that President Barack Obama's second term in the White House is drawing to a close but said work is not yet complete on the president's environmental priorities.

Officials with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Justice Department, the White House Office of Management and Budget and other agencies, during a March 31-April 1 American Bar Association conference in Austin, Texas, highlighted a number of priorities for the last eight months of the Obama administration, including continued implementation of the climate action plan, defending many of Obama's major environmental rules in court and working to close as many enforcement cases as possible.

John Cruden, assistant attorney general for environment and natural resources, told Bloomberg BNA that Obama has encouraged officials to remain focused on environmental issues in the final months."

Patrick Ambrosio reports for the Daily Environment Report April 4, 2016. [2]

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