Lisa Coleman

1 week ago | ehsdailyadvisor.com | Lisa Coleman

On March 27, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to end its defense of the rules requiring disclosure of climate-related risks and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. “The goal of today’s Commission action and notification to the court is to cease the Commission’s involvement in the defense of the costly and unnecessarily intrusive climate change disclosure rules,” said SEC Acting Chairman Mark T. Uyeda in an SEC press release.

1 week ago | ehsdailyadvisor.com | Lisa Coleman

On March 24, 2025, the EPA announced an update on the effective date of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) final risk management rule for trichloroethylene (TCE). TCE is an extremely toxic chemical known to cause liver cancer, kidney cancer, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It also, even in miniscule amounts, causes fetal heart defects and damage to the central nervous system, liver, kidneys, immune system, and reproductive organs.

1 week ago | ehsdailyadvisor.com | Lisa Coleman

On March 12, 2025, the EPA announced it will work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to deliver on President Donald Trump’s promise to review the definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS). “The agencies will move quickly to ensure that a revised definition follows the law, reduces red tape, cuts overall permitting costs, and lowers the cost of doing business in communities across the country while protecting the nation’s navigable waters from pollution.

3 weeks ago | ehsdailyadvisor.blr.com | Lisa Coleman

On March 12, 2025, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that “the Agency will undertake 31 historic actions in the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history, to advance President Trump’s Day One Executive Orders (EOs) and Power the Great American Comeback.”“Today is the greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen.

1 month ago | ehsdailyadvisor.blr.com | Lisa Coleman

In February, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee unanimously passed the Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025, which is legislation to reauthorize the EPA’s brownfields program, and the Strategies to Eliminate Waste and Accelerate Recycling Development (STEWARD) Act, which is legislation to improve our nation’s recycling and composting systems.