The report covers key thoughts, discussions, and findings from the 2025 Georgetown AI and Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Symposium in pursuit of unpacking the technical and legal nexus between AI and environmental compliance and enforcement.
The Trump Administration invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to create its new tariff regime. This new trade policy disrupts the clean energy transition and shows how the trade deficit, not climate change, will be treated as an emergency.
Leaf-blowers are a staple of neighborhoods, cities, and many public spaces, especially in the fall and spring. However, their environmental effects are now coming under the scrutiny of neighborhood groups and local lawmakers, but not without some blowback.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency’s intention to reconsider 31 regulations for the purpose of revitalizing the American economy and auto-industry, arguably neglecting the EPA’s environmental protection mission.
The Supreme Court ruled that the EPA exceeded its authority under the Clean Water Act by imposing broad “end-result” permit requirements, marking a significant post-Chevron shift in environmental law.
The Supreme Court has assumed the mantle of “expert” decisionmaker—contravening the meaning and intention of the Clean Water Act, overruling decades of precedent, and limiting EPA’s ability to carry out their congressionally assigned and executive-directed duties.
A Biden-Harris Administration EPA rule recently went into effect that will help to remove lead from drinking water. The Lead and Copper Rule Improvements require water systems to replace lead pipes across the country, and this huge public works project is backed by over $2.6 billion in infrastructure funding.
The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a pollution discharge permit issued by EPA under the Clean Water Act. The case raises questions of statutory interpretation, administrative, and environmental law that have been hot topics at the Supreme Court in recent terms.
EPA has been working quickly to regulate PFAS across the United States. The National Primary Drinking Water Regulation for PFAS is now finalized, and more final rules are right around the corner.
Late last year, the EPA issued a formal Endangerment Finding, the first step in almost thirty years toward reducing the largest source of lead in the atmosphere. What took so long?
