Analyses of Trump Environmental Regulatory Actions This is an archive of our work analyzing environmental rollback actions of the Trump administration. This list does not reflect the additional analysis available in our EPA Mission Tracker (which […] February 22, 2021
Legal Analysis Deconstructing Environmental Deregulation Under the Trump Administration Over the past four years, EELP has tracked the Trump administration’s environmental rollback efforts, analyzing both individual regulations and broader attacks on EPA’s mission-critical capacities, while also highlighting the lawsuits […] January 13, 2021
CleanLaw Podcast CleanLaw: Department of the Interior under the Trump Administration EELP Fellow Laura Bloomer discusses her white paper in which she led a team that analyzed political leadership at the Department of the Interior (DOI) during the past four years and offers a path forward for a Biden administration. October 15, 2020
Comprehensive Car Rules Rollbacks by Trump Administration–Backgrounder We’ve put together a comprehensive overview of the rollback of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy and vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards. Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic […] April 6, 2020
Legal Analysis Three Years After— Where Does Implementation of the Lautenberg Act Stand? On June 22, 2016, President Barack Obama signed into law the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. The Lautenberg Act made substantial revisions to the forty-year-old […] February 26, 2020
Legal Analysis How Statutory Interpretation of the Clean Air Act Serves the Trump Administration’s Deregulatory Agenda We worked with the Case Western Reserve Law Review to publish an article in which we analyze how the Trump administration is using Clean Air Act rulemakings to “deconstruct the […] February 14, 2020
State of the Environment 2020 Tonight President Trump will give the final State of the Union address of his first term. It’s likely that he will discuss some environmental and energy issues given the scale […] February 4, 2020
Five Major Rollbacks at the End of 2019 Here are the five worst things the Trump administration did toward the end of 2019 to set back environmental protection and clean energy, followed by one bright spot: Weakened environmental […] January 6, 2020