Regulatory Tracker

The 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. You can find our Federal Environmental Justice Tracker here.

We have paused or stopped updating many of the rules we were tracking under the Trump administration; you can find them here.

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Tracker Entries

Rule
Agencies
Status
Last Updated

AgenciesDOI

Last Updated04/16/2024

AgenciesEPA

Status

EPA finalized rule

Last Updated04/16/2024

AgenciesDOI

Last Updated04/02/2024

AgenciesFERC

Status

Courts dismiss challenges, allowing construction to continue

Last Updated03/27/2024

AgenciesEPA, USACE

Last Updated03/13/2024

AgenciesEPA

Status

EPA issued proposed rule

Last Updated03/03/2024

AgenciesEPA

Status

EPA announced that it would not regulate existing natural gas plants under its draft final power plant climate rule

Last Updated03/03/2024

AgenciesEPA, USACE

Status

EPA and ACE released a final rule amending the definition of WOTUS to conform to the Supreme Court's decision in Sackett

Last Updated02/28/2024

AgenciesDOI, USFWS

Status

Seven remaining leases canceled on Sep. 6, 2023

Draft supplemental EIS issued on Sep. 6, 2023

Last Updated02/22/2024

AgenciesEPA

Last Updated02/21/2024