The Biden administration is poised to take significant action on a range of environmental issues.
More broadly, the administration is considering steps that could include taking a harder line on climate regulations.
Significant changes are also in the works at the Interior Department, where Biden instructed the agency to review three national monuments that were altered during the Trump administration.
The Biden administration has also listed dozens of Trump-era environmental rules across several agencies that it plans to review, including rules governing air quality standards, water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
The Interior Department said earlier this month that it would propose a rule to revoke the Trump era rollbacks to that law, setting it up to be one of the first environmental regulations taken on by the Biden administration though the lengthy regulatory process.
In the meantime, the Biden administration has announced that it intends to rescind a legal opinion undoing penalties for companies that accidentally or incidentally kill migratory birds.
In the courts, the administration has signaled a desire to halt legal challenges to several Trump-era rules, a sign that the Justice Department would abandon its defense of those regulations.
Monday, March 29, 2021
Biden lays groundwork for environmental regulations
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