U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Rule Changes

Sets NPDES eReporting requirements; builds tools; approves state deadline extensions.

For years, Clean Water Act reporting has lived in a split-screen world: core discharge numbers went digital, but paperwork stayed stuck in PDFs, emails, and filing cabinets. Phase 2 of EPA's NPDES Electronic Reporting Rule aims to close that gap, with a December 21, 2025 compliance date.

Updated 14 hours ago

Money Moves

Permitting authority for Class VI CO2 injection wells relevant to CRC’s CCS plans

The CRC–Berry all-stock combination is now in the paperwork-and-plumbing phase. CRC's post-close 8-K confirms Berry is a wholly owned subsidiary and discloses an amendment raising CRC's elected credit-facility commitments to $1.46 billion. CRC has 71 days to publish pro forma financials for the combined company.

Updated Yesterday

Rule Changes

Rewriting and delaying key vehicle pollution and climate rules under Trump‑appointed leadership

The EPA isn't killing Biden's vehicle pollution rules outright. It plans to keep looser 2026 standards in place for two extra model years instead of enforcing tougher limits on smog-forming pollution starting in 2027.

Updated 5 days ago

Rule Changes

Attempting to rescind Endangerment Finding and vehicle GHG standards

On December 3, 2025, President Trump unveiled an NHTSA proposal to slash Biden-era CAFE standards, cutting the 2031 target from about 50.4 mpg to roughly 34.5 mpg. The rule also slows annual increases to 0.25–0.5% from 2% and bans credit trading after 2028, which especially hurts EV-focused companies that sell credits to gasoline-heavy manufacturers.

Updated 6 days ago

Rule Changes

Defendant in wave of federal lawsuits over endangerment revocation

For seventeen years, the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 endangerment finding—the determination that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases threaten public health—served as the legal foundation for virtually all federal climate regulation. On February 13, 2026, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin officially revoked it, eliminating the basis for vehicle emissions standards, power plant rules, and regulations on oil and gas facilities in what the administration called 'the largest deregulatory action in American history.'

Updated Feb 21

Rule Changes

Plaintiff; secured $100M penalty after seeking $140M

EES Coke Battery has no employees. Every worker at the Zug Island coke plant near Detroit is on the payroll of a DTE Energy subsidiary. For years, that corporate arrangement helped DTE argue it wasn't responsible for the facility's sulfur dioxide pollution. On February 17, a federal judge disagreed—and used that very arrangement as evidence to hold three DTE parent entities liable as "operators" under the Clean Air Act, ordering them to pay $100 million.

Updated Feb 20

New Capabilities

Publishes annual U.S. greenhouse gas inventory including forest carbon

American forests have stored more carbon over the past two decades than at any point in the last century. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences identifies what's driving this: forest age accounts for the largest share, locking in 89 million metric tons of carbon annually as trees reach peak growth stages. Climate factors—temperature, precipitation, and elevated carbon dioxide—add another 66 million metric tons per year.

Updated Feb 13

Rule Changes

Primary enforcement body for lead regulations

For most of the twentieth century, Americans inhaled roughly two pounds of lead per person annually from car exhaust alone. A new University of Utah study analyzing century-old hair samples confirms the scale of this unintentional mass poisoning—and the dramatic reversal that followed. Lead concentrations in human hair dropped from 100 parts per million before the 1970s to less than 1 part per million today, a 100-fold decline documented through specimens preserved in family scrapbooks.

Updated Feb 7