WEBINAR: What Happens Now at EPA: Assessing the Executive Orders and Upcoming Regulatory Reform
Webinar | 04.12.17, 7:00 AM EDT - 8:30 AM EDT
Over the past two months, the Trump Administration has issued multiple Executive Orders related to regulatory reform generally and focused on EPA’s agenda specifically. The Orders look to dismantle major Obama Administration actions – namely the Clean Power Plan and the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule – as well as work to shrink the overall regulatory landscape, particularly those agency activities and regulations related to climate change. These actions occur in the face of pending litigation against the Obama-era actions, along with uncertainty over the budgetary resources available to EPA to implement the ambitious de-regulatory agenda.
In addition, Administrator Pruitt has expressed skepticism regarding EPA’s landmark climate change, air, and water regulations and has stated that he intends to lead EPA with a particular focus on rule of law, cooperative federalism, and public participation. The perspectives he brings to EPA could lead the agency and its staff in dramatically new directions in pursuit of environmental protection.
This thought leading panel will address the immediate and near term ramifications of the recent Executive Orders applying to environmental, energy and climate change issues, for insight on where the agency may be quickly changing course, and how such direction could impact the regulatory agenda, litigation, and policy.
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Webinar | 09.28.26
Rethinking "the Administrative State" - Takeaways From the Supreme Court's 2025–26 Term
The Supreme Court's 2025–26 term took up several momentous cases that will influence and, in key respects, reorient constitutional separation-of-powers principles moving forward. Join the D.C. Bar Administrative Law and Agency Practice Community for a discussion of the key takeaways from the Supreme Court's 2025-26 term. This panel will examine decisions addressing the scope of executive branch authority, including cases involving tariffs issued under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the removal of leaders of so-called independent agencies. The discussion will also address significant orders issued on the Court's emergency docket and what these decisions and orders signal about the distinct roles the three branches of federal government play in shaping the administrative state.
