In general, U.S. environmental laws do not prevent the EPA from weakening protection standards. But merely announcing the agency’s intention to do something doesn’t make it so.

In a consequential policy shift, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Trump administration announced its ...

Democratic votes are essential to secure changes to the nation’s primary chemicals law that offer US manufacturers needed ...

On April 11, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a request for information to solicit ideas for ...

One of the most restrictive gun control measures to be passed in the state as part of a long-running Democratic campaign to curtail gun violence, the law takes full effect in August 2026. “We can’t ...

Gov. Jared Polis signed a sweeping gun-control measure into law Thursday, the culmination of years of effort by advocates and progressive Democrats to limit the sale of high-powered semiautomatic ...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed into law a major gun control bill on Thursday, the culmination of months of bitter legislative debate, 11th-hour concessions, and pressure campaigns. Beginning in ...

On Inauguration Day, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency at the southern border. The order requires both the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of ...

An anti-deepfake bill is on the verge of becoming US law despite concerns from civil liberties groups that it could be used by President Trump and others to censor speech that has nothing to do ...

The law, in place since 1807, has three main provisions. First, it allows troop deployment if a state requests federal assistance. Second, it authorizes action without state consent when enforcement ...

Chen made in the seven years before that final opinion were precedential because the lawsuit involved the first of its kind challenge to a denial of a citizen’s petition under the section of Toxic ...