Environmental Law and Policy/Governance
H.R. 4350
Update Type
Committee Name
Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Education and Workforce, and Science, Space, and Technology
Sponsor Name
Stevens
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Mich.
Issue
9
Volume
55
Update Issue
19
Update Volume
55
Congress Number
119
Congressional Record Number
171 Cong. Rec. H3199

would establish a loan program to expand capabilities to manufacture critical materials to secure the U.S. supply chain, amend the Internal Revenue Code to provide credits for qualified investments into critical material facilities and production credits for manufacturing critical materials, and authorize cross-cutting research, development, and demonstration activities relating to critical material supply chains.

H.R. 4341
Update Type
Committee Name
Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Science, Space, and Technology, Natural Resources, and Ways and Means
Sponsor Name
Matsui
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Cal.
Issue
9
Volume
55
Update Issue
19
Update Volume
55
Congress Number
119
Congressional Record Number
171 Cong. Rec. H3198

would require the Administrator of EPA to assess certain fees on shipping and other vessels.

H.R. 4338
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Sponsor Name
Leger Fernandez
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-N.M.
Issue
9
Volume
55
Update Issue
19
Update Volume
55
Congress Number
119
Congressional Record Number
171 Cong. Rec. H3198

would develop weather tools for electricity system planning and operational modeling, and expand research on extreme weather event scenarios for energy utility companies and regulators.

S. 2245
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Sponsor Name
Baldwin
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Wis.
Issue
9
Volume
55
Update Issue
19
Update Volume
55
Congress Number
119
Congressional Record Number
171 Cong. Rec. S4314

would amend the Digital Coast Act to improve the acquisition, integration, and accessibility of data of the Digital Coast program and to extend the program.

S. 2221
Update Type
Committee Name
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Sponsor Name
Merkley
Sponsor Party Affiliation
D-Or.
Issue
9
Volume
55
Update Issue
19
Update Volume
55
Congress Number
119
Congressional Record Number
171 Cong. Rec. S4286

would establish requirements under which the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior shall carry out the Timber Production Expansion Guaranteed Loan Program.

Making America Beautiful Again by Improving Our National Parks
E.O. 14314
07/03/2025
90 Fed. Reg. 30201 (July 9, 2025)

Making America Beautiful Again by Improving Our National Parks

               By the authority vested in me as President by the 
               Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
               America, it is hereby ordered:

The Trump Administration's Self-Inflicted Problem: Why Repealing CEQ Regulations Will Delay Infrastructure and Energy Development
Author
John C. Ruple, Justin Pidot, and Jamie Pleune
Author Bios (long)

John C. Ruple is a Research Professor of Law and Director of the Wallace Stegner Center’s Law and Policy Program at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law. Justin Pidot is the Ashby Lohse Chair in Water & Natural Resources and Co-Director of the Environmental Law Program at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law. Jamie Pleune is an Associate Research Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law and Deputy Director of the Wallace Stegner Center’s Law and Policy Program.

Date
July 2025
Volume
55
Issue
4
Page
10378
Type
Comment(s)
Summary

For the first time in nearly 50 years, following the federal government's recission of CEQ's NEPA implementing regulations on April 11, 2025, there are no governmentwide regulations in place to provide consistent direction to all federal agencies on how to implement the governmentwide procedural obligations established by NEPA. This Comment explains the costs of eliminating the common floor that the CEQ regulations had established for federal agencies conducting the environmental analyses required to comply with NEPA’s statutory mandate, and why those costs need not have been incurred.

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