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On Tuesday, January 24, 2017, President Trump issued three presidential memorandums and one Executive Order (EO) that collectively may change the federal approach to permitting and constructing energy pipelines and other infrastructure projects in the United States. Two memorandums overrule decisions by the Obama administration not to permit construction of the U.S. portion of TransCanada’s […]
In a memo to the heads of executive branch departments and agencies (the memo can be found here), Reince Priebus, President Trump’s chief of staff, ordered a freeze on all pending regulatory actions except those addressing “emergency situations or other urgent circumstances relating to health, safety, or national security.”
The Trump administration has unveiled its new energy plan. Following in Trump’s inauguration theme, “America First,” the plan sets forth the administration’s new commitment to home-grown energy independence to assist job growth for American workers. The plan discusses the elimination of policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the United States […]
E. Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the EPA, began the afternoon session of his hearing before the Senate and Environment and Public Works Committee by noting three additional legal actions he has initiated against oil companies in Oklahoma.
While a new labor secretary has been nominated by President Donald Trump, no one is talking about who might be chosen to head OSHA. Find out what the acting OSHA boss had to say about the future of the agency.
E. Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general (AG) and Donald Trump’s choice to head the EPA, says he believes that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activity are a factor in climate change and that the Agency has an important role to play in regulating those emissions. Pruitt also said he respects EPA’s CO2 endangerment finding, […]
Yesterday we discussed a case where a company faced nearly $4.9 million in fines for alleged violations of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rules for protecting workers from exposure to restricted use pesticides (RUPs). Today we will review amendments to the regulations for RUP applications that could affect over 1 million RUP applicators nationwide.
The Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released a scoping report that is the first step in a process that will produce a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) in 2019 on the management of coal leasing on public land, says the BLM. The intent of the report is to present […]
The new Trump administration taking over this year will likely affect the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) rulemaking and enforcement in the coming years. We know that Trump campaigned on creating jobs and reducing the regulatory burden on business—but we don’t know how this will impact workplace safety and health regulations.
OSHA’s fall 2016 regulatory agenda, released in late December, enumerated more than 2 dozen planned actions for the agency over the next few months. But with a Trump administration taking the reins on January 20, it remains to be seen how OSHA’s priorities will evolve under new direction.