Regulatory Tracker

Our Regulatory Tracker explains the Biden administration’s steps to advance clean energy deployment and environmental protection, and provides an up-to-date and concise summary of both regulatory and litigation actions. The table below links you to pages that describe the significance and history of each rule, including the Trump-era rollback efforts. We work to update each page on the actions of the Biden administration and any related litigation.

See more of our work analyzing the Biden administration’s environmental and climate actions on our Tracking the Biden-Harris Climate & Environmental Agenda page (including links to our Biden Environmental Action Tracker spreadsheet and our Federal Environmental Justice Tracker).

For a list of trackers by other organizations, click here. If you have questions about our trackers, please email us.

Thank you to our tracker research assistants!

Current research assistants:

  • Regulatory Tracker:  Kipper Berven, Brandon Duetsch, Chloe Dyer, Michaela Morris
  • Environmental Justice Tracker: Logan Campbell, Olivia den Dulk, Noelle Musolino, Layla Rao
  • Biden Environmental Action Tracker spreadsheet: Jared Solomon

Former research assistants: Laura Bloomer, Katherine Clements, Peter Daniels, Libby Dimenstein, Leilani Doktor, Daniel Eyal, Hannah Fox, Max Hantel, Alyssa Huang, Amelia Keyes, Elizabeth Melampy, Rachel Neuburger, James Pollack, Ari Sillman, Sarah Simon, Qingyang Song, Sebastian Spitz, Anna Todd, Grace Weatherall, Rachel Westrate, Lindsay Williams, and Zach Winn, Eric Wriston, and Majid Waheed

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Tracker Entries

Rule
Agencies
Status
Last Updated

RulePower Plant Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction Rule

AgenciesEPA

Status

2015 policy reinstated

Last Updated03/25/2022

RuleThe Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide)

AgenciesMultiple

Status

Court stays the injunction, Biden administration may continue using its interim estimates

Last Updated03/17/2022

RuleRegional Haze Rule

AgenciesEPA

Status

EPA reviewing state SIPs

Last Updated03/15/2022

RuleAir Transport – Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, Section 126 Petitions, and Section 184 Ozone Transportation Commission Petition

AgenciesEPA

Status

CSAPR Update Finalized; 2015 Ozone Transport Proposal Released

Last Updated03/15/2022

RuleBLM Methane Waste Prevention Rule

AgenciesBLM

Status

Final and original rules vacated; proposal expected Spring 2022

Last Updated03/15/2022

RuleLiquid Natural Gas by Rail Rule

AgenciesPHMSA & FRA (DOT)

Status

Biden revisions at OIRA

Last Updated03/15/2022

RuleNational Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

AgenciesMultiple

Status

"Phase 1" rule proposed, "Phase 2" rule expected in 2022

Last Updated03/15/2022

RuleRegulating Greenhouse Gases from Power Plants – the Clean Power Plan and Affordable Clean Energy Rules

AgenciesEPA

Status

Supreme Court reviewing D.C. Cir. vacatur

Last Updated03/15/2022

RuleClean Car Rules—Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards/Greenhouse Gas Standards

AgenciesEPA, NHTSA

Status

Biden EPA and NHTSA issued final rules

Last Updated03/15/2022

RuleFederal Onshore and Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Pause and Review

AgenciesDOI

Status

Litigation on the leasing pause and Lease Sale 257 ongoing

Last Updated03/15/2022

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