The Environmental Law Institute this week issued a new report identifying where the action is going to be in the Trump Administration with regard to environmental policy. Here is ELI’s list of those areas – the report can be found in its entirety ELI Report – Reg Reform in Trump Era:
- FACT SHEET 1: Reversing or Revising Executive Orders and Actions
- ACTOR: President
- FACT SHEET 2: Undoing Presidential Actions Protecting Public Lands and Resources
- ACTORS: President, Congress
- FACT SHEET 3: Fast-Tracking Projects That Require Federal Approval
- ACTORS: President, Council on Environmental Quality, Department Secretaries, Congress
- FACT SHEET 4: “Cancelling” the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
- ACTORS: President, Senate
- FACT SHEET 5: Reversing or Revising Agency Regulations, Generally
- ACTORS: Federal Agencies, Department of Justice, Congress
- FACT SHEET 6: Invalidating Recent Agency Regulations Under the Congressional Review Act
- ACTORS: Congress, President
- FACT SHEET 7: Implementing the New “Two-for-One” Executive Order on Federal Regulations
- ACTORS: Office of Management and Budget, Federal Agencies
- FACT SHEET 8: Rolling Back Public Lands Plans
- ACTORS: President, Department Secretaries, Congress
- FACT SHEET 9: Cutting Back on Federal Enforcement of Environmental Law
- ACTORS: EPA, Department of the Interior, and other Federal Agencies; Department of Justice
- FACT SHEET 10: Defunding Federal Environmental Protection Programs
- ACTORS: Congress, President, Federal Agencies
- FACT SHEET 11: Preempting State Environmental Protection Requirements
- ACTORS: Congress, Federal Agencies, Courts
- FACT SHEET 12: Subjecting Agency Regulations to Additional Cost-Benefit Analysis
- ACTOR: White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
- FACT SHEET 13: Enacting New Procedures for Federal Regulation
- ACTORS: Congress, President
- FACT SHEET 14: Enacting New Constraints on Citizen Enforcement of Environmental Law
- ACTORS: Congress, President