We anticipate President Trump’s upcoming term will usher in significant shifts in U.S. environmental enforcement priorities and practices. Beveridge & Diamond has helped clients navigate every change ...

Get ready for a sea change in the Justice Department’s approach to environmental enforcement under the incoming Biden administration. Get ready for a sea change in the Justice Department’s approach to ...

Trump and Lee Zeldin have presided over a striking decline in the EPA enforcing existing laws. Compared with the final year ...

The EPA under President Donald Trump notched higher enforcement numbers across several key metrics in fiscal 2025 than it has in a decade, Jeffrey Hall, head of the agency’s enforcement division, said ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its Fiscal Year 2025 enforcement and compliance results today, highlighting a significant jump in legal actions and border security measures during ...

Agency staff and former officials are warning that new guidance could strengthen the polluter’s hand. “This will stop all meaningful cases in their tracks,” one staffer said. EPA has set out new ...

On January 13, 2026, the Ontario Court of Justice issued a C$750,000 fine to Estée Lauder, after the company pled guilty to two counts of violating CEPA. The offences were related to Estée Lauder: ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicated this week that it will steer its environmental enforcement officers away from energy companies. The EPA can pursue civil or criminal cases against ...

On March 26, 2020, USEPA released a memo titled “COVID-19 Implications for EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Program” describing USEPA’s temporary policy for enforcing environmental legal ...

Reports from separate environmental advocacy groups show that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcement has decreased since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, and one ...

About a week after Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced a statewide shutdown, a journalist and activist in the western part of the state obtained video that appeared to show a large nearby storage ...